wryneck
About 0.02 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.
- noun 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.
Similar words
torticollis eurasian wryneck writheneck jynx iyng jyng barley-bird snakebird mackerel bird iynx
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