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Cowlick

noun

A tuft of hair that grows in a different direction from the rest of the hair and usually will not lie flat.

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"Cowlick" Quotes from Famous Books

... so! No matter what they was about he was always hunting for some new Meetings to go to! He just seemed naturally to dote hisself on any crowd of people that was all facing the other way looking at somebody else! He had a little cowlick at the back of his neck!" sobbed Mrs. Bent. "It was a comical little cowlick! People used to laugh at it! He never liked to sit any place where there ...

— Fairy Prince and Other Stories • Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

... Besides, he had on his only good suit of dark-blue serge, very thin serge. It was one that he had bought second-hand from Jim, and he was sure, therefore, of its perfection. He thought, too, that he had mastered, by the stern use of a wet brush, a cowlick which usually disgraced the crown of his head. He hadn't. It had long ago risen to ...

— Hidden Creek • Katharine Newlin Burt

Words linked to "Cowlick" : hair