squiggle

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English

Etymology

Probably a blend of squirm +‎ wiggle.[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

squiggle (plural squiggles)

  1. A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.
    • 1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise:
      Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?
  2. (informal) Synonym of tilde.
  3. An illegible scrawl.

Translations

Verb

squiggle (third-person singular simple present squiggles, present participle squiggling, simple past and past participle squiggled) (transitive, intransitive)

  1. To wriggle or squirm.
    • 1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9:
      When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.
  2. To make a squiggle.
  3. To write illegibly.

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References

  • squiggle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “squiggle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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