squiggle
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6.8
- noun
- /ˈskwɪɡəl/
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- If a baby was looking at this book, it would be squiggles, shapes, forms and colours.
- a little squiggle
- a pink squiggle
- a black squiggle
Can you take a brush and make squiggles on a page?
- Can you take a brush and make squiggles on a page?
- Everyday people hear technical analysis and they think about squiggles on charts.
- If a baby was looking at this book, it would be squiggles, shapes, forms and colours.
- If I had a bigger map, it would show more squiggles, wouldn't it?
- Here in this little grass and path park of old men, he held the squiggle of silver reflection of the midday sun.
- It's a flat object made from a tree, with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles.
- They're both very dense, heavy bars and they both have kind of squiggles along the top, like it's just rough and bumpy along the top.
- Genial squiggles turn inside the width, which animates such a walk.
- And he's going to sit there in the park contemplating the, as he calls it, the squiggle, right?
Examples
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The characters were unlike anything Warren had seen before, little more than squiggles and dots.
Fiction book (1998) -
He noticed a squiggle in the corner of his notebook that looked like it was drawn in a hurry.
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Right there, above the squiggle.
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A squiggle with a dot.
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It's got lines and squiggles all through it.
Fiction book (1999) -
And below the squiggle are some excerpts from stories that people have been willing to tell.
Blog text (31) -
It's your brain that has the lines and squiggles.
Fiction book (1999) -
What started as a few squiggles began slowly to evolve into the big idea we were all hoping for.
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Now, as Nina surveyed the lagoon, the lines and squiggles on a map translated themselves into physical features.
Fiction book (2000) -
The teacher asked the students to create a colorful drawing filled with squiggles and shapes.
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Etymology
Squiggle probably comes from a playful sound root squig and looks a lot like the familiar word wiggle, which means 'to move in a small, twisting way'. So a squiggle is an easy, informal name for a small, wavy or twisting line on the page.