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squig pattern

squig pattern

6.6
A design of wavy lines often on clothes or paper
  • noun
translation icon : patrón ondulado
  • Her dress featured bold squig patterns that caught everyone's attention.

Examples

  • The notebook was covered in squig patterns drawn with colored pens.

  • They painted the mural with overlapping squig patterns for a playful effect.

  • Look at this squig pattern!

  • I love the squig pattern on this wallpaper.

  • The notebook was covered in squig patterns drawn with colored pens.

  • Her dress featured bold squig patterns that caught everyone's attention.

  • They painted the mural with overlapping squig patterns for a playful effect.

Synonyms

squiggle
vssquig pattern
11 6.8

A short wavy line drawn quickly like a doodle

is a composed design made from many such curvy lines
patterning
vssquig pattern
1 4.5

Making repeated designs on a surface, like cloth or walls

is a specific design type made of irregular curvy lines
scalloping
vssquig pattern
1 6.0

A wavy edge decoration on cloth or paper

is an overall irregular curvy design not limited to edge borders

How Curvy

swirly
1 3.9
squig pattern
6.6
wavy
16 1.3

Surface Forms

squig pattern singular
squig patterns plural

Morphology

squig + pattern

Assuming the learner knows 'squig' as an irregular or curvy line, the compound 'squig pattern' is directly compositional: it denotes a pattern made up of squigs. The noun+noun modifier structure is a transparent, cross-linguistically common construction, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the meaning.

Etymology

Squig pattern comes from the playful word squig, short for 'squiggle', which means a small curvy line. So squig pattern means 'a design of uneven, curvy lines' because it is many little squig lines joined together.