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Tuft of hair that won't lie flat
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cowlick
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Word definitions for cowlick in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ I can't brush this dumb cowlick down. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ First, the cowlick had miraculously disappeared. ▪ He still wears a sailor suit, the cowlick at his hairline gives his forelock a life of its own. ▪ His hair ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from cow (n.) + lick (n.). Because it looks like a cow licked your head.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cowlick \Cow"lick`\ (-l?k`), n. A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cowlick is a section of hair that stands straight up or lies at an angle at odds with the style in which the rest of an individual's hair is worn. Cowlicks appear when the growth direction of the hair forms a spiral pattern. The term "cowlick" originates ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. An unruly lock of hair that sticks straight up from the skull as if licked by a cow. n. An unruly lock of hair that sticks straight up from the skull as if licked by a cow.
Usage examples of cowlick.
His head was bent, stray auburn hairs lifting from his crown, from the cowlicks he had bequeathed both to Bree and to Jemmy.
Little moustache, bit like Charlie Chaplin, piggy little eyes and a great cowlick of hair across the forehead.
James turned and gave Mary Catherine the helpless, angry look of a little brother who has just had his cowlick pulled by his big sister.
I remembered another step, another time, a warm shoulder next to mine, a cowlicked head bent low, with mine, over something marvelous and strange.
She rolled the melon on the grass, rubbed back her cowlicked bangs, and slumping against a tree, cocked her thumbs in the belt rungs of the dungarees which she wore.
I could hear Pemulis's cowlicks brush each wall as he looked to either side, and the slight sound of a small zipper being played with.
His shoelaces were untied, his cowlicks fully aroused, and his grin as impish as ever.
From dangling shoelaces and gap-toothed smiles to cowlicks and ball jackets to baggy jeans and shining falls of hair.
But once out of public view, the long fingers would start to stray through that haystack and, in no time at all, three cowlicks in opposition would make his head look like an Indian warbonnet.
From here he looked like a scarecrow: coat-hanger shoulders, spriggy black cowlick, his arms set at wiry angles.
He'd doused his cowlick with spray-Rhyme could smell propane, isobutane, and vinyl acetate-but the charming spike still stuck up like Dagwood's.
He’d doused his cowlick with spray—Rhyme could smell propane, isobutane, and vinyl acetate—but the charming spike still stuck up like Dagwood’s.
So I wash my face, adjust my scarf, and slick down the little cowlick in my hair.
To accentuate his widow's peak and tame his cowlick, Samuel Heckler insisted on combing his hair straight back.