squiggle

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  1. noun A small wiggly mark or scrawl.
  2. intransitive verb To squirm and wriggle.
  3. intransitive verb To make squiggles.

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  • The squiggle was tiny, but was oddly suggestive of a naked man in a state of sexual excitement. —  Reality Check by Piers Anthony
  • Straight up and dead level and hold at squiggle-hundred meters according to the readout on the indecipherable altimeter display. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • We do not know what mechanisms the enemy has to observe you, now that its squiggle is gone, but we cannot afford to assume they are negligible. —  The Source of Magic
  • Meredith, he knew, was currently in the tower... and Hafner suspected he'd welcome someone to talk to The same three-squiggle pattern showed up over eighty times in the main control room alone... and the pattern of lights and switches associated with it was more than a little suggestive. —  Spinneret
  • Another girl might have written “Yours” with a noncommittal squiggle, but her writing did not lend itself to that kind of evasion. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Perhaps blend of squirm and wiggle.

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  1. apparently a variant, with intensive prefix s-, of *quiggle, English dial. queegle, a variant of wiggle: see wiggle.
 

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