cowlick
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 18
- Words With Friends
- 21
- Letters
- 7
/ˈkaʊˌlɪk/
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/ˈkaʊˌlɪk/ · /ˈkælɪk/(US)
Definition of cowlick
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.
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