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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A small wiggly mark or scrawl.
  2. v. To squirm and wriggle.
  3. v. To make squiggles.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To shake a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
  2. To move about like an eel; squirm; wriggle.

Wiktionary

  1. n. a short twisting or wiggling line or mark
  2. n. informal the tilde
  3. n. an illegible scrawl
  4. v. to wriggle or squirm
  5. v. to make a squiggle
  6. v. to write (something) illegibly

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. Prov. Eng. To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
  2. v. Low, U.S. To move about like an eel; to squirm.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an illegible scrawl
  2. n. a short twisting line

Etymologies

  1. Perhaps blend of squirm and wiggle. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “He is referring to the squiggle of shiny plastic detail filled with coloured ink.”

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

  • “No first name, unless the squiggle was a first name.”

    Resurrection Men

  • “As I told you, I looked at that insane diagram with the squiggle to one side and I knew the diagram was me and the squiggle was a question mark.”

    Project Pope

  • “I finshed it up by quilting a basic cross-hatch into the basket and then a kind of squiggle into the flowers - to give the impression of stems, if you see what I mean.”

    Spring Mini, JQP26, winner

  • “He says there was a different kind of squiggle for every word and they used to write whole books in squiggles.”

    The Complete Stories Vol 1

  • “A shapeless squiggle which is utterly unlike your normal signature, but which is, nevertheless, all you are able to produce when asked formally to identify yourself.”

    The Meaning of Liff

  • “Steve- If I were looking at Juckes’ blue squiggle and your blue squiggle on an oscilloscope, I would conclude that your squiggle was a bandwidth limited version of Juckes’ squiggle – that is, the high frequency content is more smoothed in your squiggle.”

    Decoding Juckes SI Figure 1 « Climate Audit

  • “Winning off 139, he has still got some way to go to match Voy Por Ustedes in the 170s, and with the Timeform 'squiggle' still arched over the Twiston-Davies yard, he is not attractive enough to risk at 7 / 1.”

    Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed

  • “For example, see a color, squiggle, meaning of a squiggle, and / or hear a key word or phrase?”

    The Tablet PC Education Blog

  • “But hay is better than a net, 'cept that it tickles you, "and Bunny took from his neck some pieces of dried grass that made him wiggle, and" squiggle, "as”

    Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus

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  1. scrawl
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  1. line

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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. giggle
  1. jiggle
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  1. wiggle
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  • yarb He likes to get me down in the long weeds between
    two of them marble things - I can see ivy sprout
    on the cross by his head. He makes me squiggle when
                              he sticks his hand up.

    - Peter Reading, Tryst, from Diplopic, 1983 Jun 30, 2008

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