Lexicographical Neighbors of Calflick
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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