A Scottish term for a cow with a white stripe down its face, or a nickname for such an animal.
From Scots 'hawk' or 'hauk' (a white-faced animal), possibly influenced by 'hawk' the bird due to color patterns. This is a distinctly Scottish rural term dating back several centuries for marking and naming livestock.
Scottish farmers created affectionate names for their cows based on appearance—'hawkies' were the white-faced ones—and these names entered poetry and folk tradition so strongly that they appear in Robert Burns' poems as cultural markers of Scottish rural life.
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