Examples
“And you can see whenever that line of red gets kind of squiggly, you know there's a big time straight-line winds.”
“See the two yellow kind of squiggly lines there, those represent roads, the Canyon Road and the Malibu Canyon Road in between an area that's been evacuated.”
“CFLs fit in standard lamps and come in many shapes, ranging from ones that look like traditional bulbs to "squiggly" models that take traditional fluorescent tubes and bend them into spiral shapes.”
“Nate Silver wants to scrap the "squiggly" audience reaction dials during Presidential debates.”
“Mr. Kunkel is himself the author of a widely heralded first novel Indecision (2005), the cover of which features the same kind of squiggly, Saul Bass-esque design as Everything Is Illuminated (2002), the widely heralded first novel by Jonathan Safran Foer (Princeton ’99) — a cynical act of marketing that suggests both men offer precisely the same kind of transporting, highbrow laddie-lit experience to the Barnes & Noble buyer.”
“Betty’s mother, I guessed it to have been, had covered the contents with white cotton cloth, then had sewn it secure though rather messily compared to the fine stitchery I was used to seeing in my own home, and had written my father’s name and address on it real big, in the same kind of squiggly penmanship he used.”
“The wiggly squiggly tripas are in a separate container to the side.”
“Then came the euro, which erased all those squiggly lines that used to divide up the European currency map and gave American tourists such a fascinating variety of pictures of dead politicians to bring home at the end of their vacations.”
The Huffington Post: Ian Fletcher: Why Have Nations at All? The Case for Economic Borders
“The land below was a puzzle of squares and rectangles and squiggly lines.”
“David noticed that he was drawing a picture of a fire, with dozens of squiggly flames rising from a large bowl.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squiggly’.
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 3063 more... -
NeoVolt's Words
schadenfreude, serendipity, idiosyncrasy, loess, caducous, vagary, schematic, steeple, licentious, tangential, verisimilitude, vernacular and 385 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Squ-
All those fun words that begin with squ-. Be careful; this list is hard to read without some serious eye-crossage.
squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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What, another list?
ravishing, ravenous, pronk, brinksmanship, jaspe, mottle, chasm, testy, temperament, ponder, personally, phantom and 206 more...
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oddball
wackadoodlery.
( personal list )
related (from me):
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopoeias--1
bric-a-brac, succotash, humbucker, skedaddle, scallywag, sassafras, gadzooks, humdinger, hoity-toity, wishy-washy, namby-pamby, ding dong and 456 more...
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1707 more...
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Q-Tips
mmm... tasty
qat, maqui, quays, quite, qua, pique, quean, quits, aqua, qaids, queen, quods and 76 more...
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Hunson's List-O-Rama
Is it a random word or is it the next big thing?
dynamite, post hoc ergo pro..., hasty, innoculous, vicarious, proliferation, pathos, logos, ethos, waffle, epistolary, phagocyte and 21 more...
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adorable words
These are all cute.
bunny, bunnies, pie, bubble, owlet, fluff, squishy, bonbon, muffin, puddle, puppy, peach and 11 more...
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pickwick's Words
globule, context, glossolalia, squee, gerrymander, verbing, flagellate, leathery, sepulchral, squiggly, schwa, zyzygy and 40 more...
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