wryneck /ˈɹaɪnɛk/ noun2 •(old-fashioned) 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. •Either of two small woodpeckers, Jynx torquilla and Jynx ruficollis, of the Old World, that turn their heads almost 180 degrees when foraging. formswrynecks