Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having curls.
- adj. Having the tendency to curl.
- adj. Having a wavy grain: curly maple wood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having curls; tending to curl; full of curves, twists, or ripples.
- Affected with curl. See curl, n., 4 , *, *.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having curls
- n. a person or animal with curly hair.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (of hair) having curls or waves
Etymologies
- From curl + -y. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“At the end of a further short period this develops into a light curly mass (_cauliflower_ or _curly head_), which gradually becomes lighter and more solid in appearance, and is then known as _rocky head_.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
“And these two are killers: Storm wild eye seeker shad and white bass assasin curly shad on a small gamakatsu swimbait hook.”
I have been fishing the Susq for many years and have not caught one of the greats yet, the Musky.
“I do not have much hair anyway, so make me look like Curly, and show me the script!! alan you can put to play curly he look like curly is johnny salami steveorth”
Sean Penn Signs Back on to Play Larry in Farrelly Brothers THREE STOOGES Film – Collider.com
“With large dark eyes, olive complexion, and hair in curly dark ringlets, he was a striking young man.”
“Photo: Entrepreneur Ouidad, who owns a salon that specializes in curly hair in Manhattan.”
“I seem to recall a certain curly haired Yonge street vendor flogging his poetry chapbooks.”
“In addition, she said, there weren't as many weeds last winter, which cut down on the number of insects that transmit the chile-killing virus called curly top, the newspaper reported.”
“Flexi, in short, curly hair and a camo fleece, immediately begins referring to me as manito, shorthand for little brother.”
“Fortunately after years of growing both kinds in the garden and letting them reseed, I now have a hybrid half-flat, half-curly, which is perfect and which I can serve to guests who would snub the curly stuff.”
“Bill was already in the bathroom, staking his territory by laying out the contents of his Dopp Kit on the sink and checking his "coif" that's what he always called his curly Portuguese locks...his "coif", so I opened the door.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘curly’.
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shapes
words for shape
( randomness, visual. descriptive )triangular, conical, round, broad, congruous, hexagonal, globular, curved, oval, rectangular, parallel, crumpled and 142 more...
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Adjectives
sagacious, average, angry, mad, crazy, giant, ugly, pretty, happy, sad, lonely, solitary and 119 more...
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Words that look like adverbs but aren't
manly, womanly, ungainly, slovenly, homily, costly, dastardly, family, sparkly, wrinkly, oily, orderly and 69 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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Favorite Five-Letter Words
Just what it sounds like. My favorites. Five letters.
ennui, barfy, samba, schwa, beefy, chunk, queef, spasm, skulk, bowel, elbow, fruit and 235 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, C
cryptoxanthin, convent, calcar, chuckle, campanile, covet, complexion, campestral, chirography, counterscarp, caliginous, catabolism and 722 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Neverland
tinker bell, peter pan, captain james hook, wendy, mermaid, fairies, pirates, nibs, slightly, tootles, curly, john and 20 more...
Tweets
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oroboros One of Peter Pan's lost boys. Aug 9, 2009