wryneck

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wry=neck

CIDE DICTIONARY

wryneck, n. 

•  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 of the neck; torticollis.  [1913 Webster]
•  a person suffering from torticollis.  [PJC]
•  Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx or subfamily Jynginae, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (Jynx torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo's mate, snakebird, summer bird, tonguebird, and writheneck.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

wryneck, n.
1 = TORTICOLLIS.
2 any bird of the genus Jynx of the woodpecker family, able to turn its head over its shoulder.

THESAURUS

wryneck

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