tilt head
Tip skull sideways
Tilt head describes the gesture of angling one's head to one side, typically expressing curiosity, confusion, or attentive interest.
Dogs do it when puzzled by a sound; humans do it when considering something unexpected: She did a tilt head at his strange comment.
The phrase often appears in stage directions, roleplay, or descriptions of body language online, sometimes rendered as *tilts head* to indicate the action.
- leanLacking fat; incline
- lean inTilt body forward
- cockMale chicken
- angleGeometric measure of rotation
- curiousEager to learn
questioning · sideways · body language · glance · side eye · gesture · puppy · puppy dog · listen · wonder · neck · incline · slant · confused · ponder · ear · attentive · bird