cowlick

You might be surprised to learn that you can’t comb the hairs flat on a coconut without creating a cowlick.

For some reason I started picking and flattening her cowlicks with my fingers like we were a couple of gorillas.

“It’s like a cowlick,” she says, her hand rubbing along it.

A cowlick at the back of his head stood up like a question mark.

The cowlicks in the fur, the bottoms of the paws, the spots on the tummy.