Squiggle
Sponsored by Beatrice CurtisCame first in group 570 in round 1 with 304 votesbeat Wanton on 161 votesbeat Azure on 100 votesbeat Move on 11 votes
Came first in group 143 in round 2 with 391 votesbeat Posset on 230 votesbeat Plumb on 87 votesbeat Woe on 71 votes
Won in group 72 in round 3 with 664 votesbeat Stupendous on 318 votes
Won in group 36 in round 4 with 601 votesbeat Frangipane on 362 votes
Won in group 18 in round 5 with 480 votesbeat Maelstrom on 436 votes
Lost in group 9 in round 6 with 381 votesbeaten by Codswallop on 617 votes
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably a blend of squirm + wiggle.[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
squiggle (plural squiggles)
- 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?
- (informal) Synonym of tilde.
- An illegible scrawl.
Translations[edit]
a short twisting or wiggling line or mark
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tilde — see tilde
an illegible scrawl
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Verb[edit]
squiggle (third-person singular simple present squiggles, present participle squiggling, simple past and past participle squiggled) (transitive, intransitive)
- 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.
- To make a squiggle.
- To write illegibly.
Translations[edit]
to write (something) illegibly
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Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- “squiggle”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “squiggle”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.