wryneck
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 19
- Words With Friends
- 20
- Letters
- 7
/ˈɹaɪnɛk/
Definition of wryneck
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
- Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
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noun
- Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
- (dated)A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles.
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Etymology
From wry + neck.
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