Definition of Calflick

1. a cowlick (a lock of unruly hair) [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Calflick

calf
calf's-foot jelly
calf's brain
calf's liver
calf's tongue
calf-bone
calf bone
calf bones
calf diphtheria
calf love
calf pump
calf roping
calfbound
calfflesh
calfless
calflick (current term)
calflicks
calflike
calfs
calfskin
calfskins
calgranulins
caliber
calibers
calibrachoa
calibrachoas
calibrant
calibrants
calibratable
calibrate

Literary usage of Calflick

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"calflick, Cowlick, Cow's-lick, sb. A lock of hair on the forehead, which will not lie flat. Common. Call [rhymes 'fall'], (i) sb. ..."

2. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms by Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1859)
"Corned is still used in Norfolk and Suffolk, England. COWLICK, or calflick. This is applied to a portion of the hair that persists very obstinately in ..."

3. A General Dictionary of Provincialisms by William Holloway (1840)
"Places for holding calves. Derby. Query, call. Gloucester. calflick, s. [Caul and flick.] Hair which does not lie in the same direction as the other. ..."

4. A Glossary of Provincial Words Used in Herefordshire and Some of the by George Cornewall Lewis (1839)
"calflick, Hair .which does not lie in the same direction as li»- other. Call, To abuse or scold. Cam, Bank or camp near a ditch. ..."

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