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Definition of Cowlick
1. Noun. A tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat.
Definition of Cowlick
1. n. A tuft of hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead), as if licked by a cow.
Definition of Cowlick
1. Noun. An unruly lock of hair that sticks straight up from the rear of the skull as if licked by a cow. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cowlick
1. a lock of unruly hair [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowlick
Literary usage of Cowlick
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Babyhood: Devoted Exclusively to the Care of Infants and Young Children (1891)
"As regards the "cowlick," the case is a little different. ... The total eradication
of a "cowlick," however, we have never seen. ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"Cord, in the West, designates any large quantity, and not only a cord of wood.
"There is a whole cord of fixings in the kitchen." cowlick, a peculiar ..."
3. Suffolk Words and Phrases: Or, An Attempt to Collect the Lingual Localisms by Edward Moor (1823)
"cowlick. The feather of hair that sometimes stands almost upright on one side of
... In Cheshire cowlick has the same meaning. VV. And in Scotland. J, COWT. ..."
4. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1915)
"cowlick 162:80. ... of hair which will fall only one way, NE. cowlick a tuft of
hair turned up or awry (usually over the forehead) as if licked by a cow. ..."
5. Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas by Andrew Jackson Sowell (1900)
"On another occasion Mr. Reinhart went deer hunting to a noted place called
the "cowlick," and while there saw something move which he thought might be a ..."
6. Skippy Bedelle: His Sentimental Progress from the Urchin to the Complete Man by Owen Johnson (1922)
"Trousers may be brought to order in a few minutes, but to subdue a cowlick is a
matter of years. Ten minutes' rigorous application of the brushes failing to ..."
7. Proceedings of the United States Veterinary Medical Association (1893)
"... hairs make an eccentric cowlick, running in all directions; a flame is where
they run in one direction from a cowlick, and the direction should be noted ..."
8. The Eighth Husband by May Howell Beecher (1913)
"And try his best, he could not make that old cowlick on top of his head stay down
where it belonged. The first Sunday after his wife died he worked for an ..."
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