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verb
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pawkery
pawkery
noun
(Scotland) Trickery, cunning.
wakerly
wryneck
wryneck
noun
(medicine, 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; torticollis.
Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging.