Crossword clues for cowlick
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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.
WordNet
n. a tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat
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 from the domestic bovine's habit of licking its young, which results in a swirling pattern in the hair. The most common site of a human cowlick is in the crown, but they can show up anywhere. They also sometimes appear in the front and back of the head.
The term "cowlick" dates from the late 16th century, when Richard Haydocke used it in his translation of Lomazzo: "The lockes or plaine feakes of haire called cow-lickes, are made turning upwards."
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.