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cow-lick

cow-lick is the alternative form of cowlick.

Meaning of cowlick

Noun

cowlick (plural cowlicks)

  1. An unruly lock or section of hair that sticks straight out from the skull or lies at an angle at odds with the rest of an individual's hair, like a whorl or vortex.
    • We would touch strangers discreetly, feathering down their cowlicks.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    calflick

Forms of cow-lick

pluralcow-licks

Questions about cow-lick

What is cow-lick the alternative form of?
Cow-lick is the alternative form of cowlick.

Words near cow-lick in the dictionary

  1. cow-eyed
  2. cow-handed
  3. cow-hearted
  4. cow-hocked
  5. cow-juice
  6. cow-lick
  7. cow-lilies
  8. cow-lily
  9. cow-mother
  10. cow-mothers
  11. cow-nosed ray

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