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curler

curler

14 2.8
A small roll you put in hair to make curls or waves
  • noun
  • /ˈkɜr.lɚ/
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  • All right guys, next step, you're going to take your eyelash curler and curl your lashes.

I've just noticed that my curlers have burnt the carpet.

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Examples

  • Look at you with these curlers.

  • You're going to get the curliest curl out of your eyelash curler when you do this.

  • Guess what we're going to lay on this hair curler.

  • I have this little eyelash curler and oh fun.

  • Every night I roll up my hair in curlers just the way my mother used to.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • I love this eyelash curler from Addiction Tokyo.

  • Just maybe some hair curlers and a dryer or something.

  • Every night she'd roll up her hair in pink curlers, her mouth full of bobby pins.

    Fiction book (1990)
  • I'm using my Kevin Oqua lash curler because it's amazing.

  • Every night I roll up my hair in curlers just the way my mother used to.

Synonyms

roller
vscurler
20 2.0

A cylinder used to roll over things to flatten or shape them

is specifically the small cylinder used to wind hair for curls not general use
curling iron
vscurler
10 3.3

An electrical tool you heat and wrap hair around to make it wavy

uses a simple non heated cylinder wound into hair to form curls
crimper
vscurler
1 7.0

A tool that makes small wavy curls in hair

forms curls by winding hair around a small cylinder rather than pressing
hair curler
vscurler
1 2.2

A small round tube you wrap hair around to make it stay curved or wavy

is the same in meaning but is the more common compound name

Antonyms

3 3.5

A tool that makes hair smooth and flat using heat

Compounds

1 2.2

A small round tube you wrap hair around to make it stay curved or wavy

Surface Forms

curler singular
curlers plural

Morphology

curler = curl (transparent) = curl + er

The word 'curler' is transparently derived from 'curl' with the agentive suffix '-er', indicating a device used for curling.

Etymology

Curler comes from the verb curl plus the ending -er, where -er means 'something that does'. Curl is the same root as the familiar word curly, meaning 'to make a ring or twist', so a curler is the small tool that makes hair into curls.