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squiggle

squiggle

7 6.8
A short wavy line drawn quickly like a doodle
  • noun
  • /ˈskwɪɡəl/
: garabato
  • 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?

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Examples

  • 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.

  • Right there, above the squiggle.

  • A squiggle with a dot.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Synonyms

scribble
vssquiggle
10 3.5

A quick, careless drawing made without much thought

focuses on irregular wavy form rather than quick carelessness
curlicue
vssquiggle
3 7.9

A small decorative curl or twist in handwriting

describes an irregular informal mark without decorative intent

Antonyms

83 1.0

A line that does not curve and keeps the same direction

How Wavy

squiggle
7 6.8
wavy
24 1.3
curve
287 2.3
straight line
83 1.0

Surface Forms

squiggle singular
squiggles plural

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.