cowlick
nounUS /ˈkælɪk/ · /ˈkaʊˌlɪk/
Etymology From cow + lick; as the hair may appear to have been licked into place by a cow.
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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.2022, Ling Ma, “G”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
- Derived terms
- cowlicked