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WRY NECK

Specialty Definition: WRY NECK

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Medicine

Spasm of the neck muscles, drawing the head to one side and twisting the neck. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: WRY NECK

Specialty definitions using "WRY NECK": WRY NECK DAY. (references)

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Expression: WRY NECK

Expression using "WRY NECK": have wry neck. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WRY NECK

Language Translations for "WRY NECK"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

torticollis (torticollis). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

torticollis (torticollis), scheve hals (torticollis), collum distortum (torticollis), caput obstipum (torticollis). (various references)

   

French

  

torticolis. (various references)

   

German

  

Torticollis (torticollis), Schiefhals (torticollis), Collum obstipum (torticollis), Caput obstipum sive distortum (torticollis). (various references)

   

Italian

  

torcicollo (stiff neck, Wryneck). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ywray ecknay

   

Romanian

  

avea gâtul înţepenit (have wry neck). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

stabhaic (a wry neck), geòc , geoic (a wry neck). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: WRY NECK

Misspellings

"WRY NECK" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: wyr neck. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: WRY NECK

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: wryneck.

Words within the letters "c-e-k-n-r-w-y"

-2 letters: wreck.

-3 letters: crew, kern, knew, neck, reck, ryke, wren, yerk.

-4 letters: cry, ern, ken, key, new, rec, rye, wen, wry, wye, wyn, yen, yew.

-5 letters: en, er, ne, re, we, ye.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-k-n-r-w-y"
 

+1 letter: wrynecks.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Expressions
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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