Adjective: squiggley
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | squigglier |
| Superlative | squiggliest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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“Boy, this is just like a video arcade,” yells Frank, move up to the word processor and poke a button or two. “Which one do I push to shoot down all those squiggley things?” [1986, W[illiam] P[atrick] Kinsella, “Indian Joe”, in The Fencepost Chronicles, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 186–187:]
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A beech tree, he told us, could also be valuable if it was “spolted,” that is, when the rot from fungi penetrates into the wood and draws interesting squiggley lines. [2005, Belinda Rathbone, “These Woods, These Cultur’d Plains”, in The Guynd: A Scottish Journal, New York, N.Y.: Quantuck Lane Press, →ISBN, pages 133–134:]
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Make lots of little doodley drawings that give you an idea for the next little doodley thing, and soon enough you will have one little thumbnail-sized squiggley idea that your eye keeps coming back to. [2010, Matthew Levesque, “Using Thumbnails for Design Ideas”, in The Revolutionary Yardscape: Ideas for Repurposing Local Materials to Create Containers, Pathways, Lighting, and More, Portland, Ore.; London: Timber Press, →ISBN, chapter 4 (Walk on This), page 69, column 2:]
Adjectives inflected like squiggley
snipey,
scaley,
smiley,
slicey,
slimey,
slatey,
shitey,
blowsey,
plaguey,
breezey,
schemey,
smudgey,
smidgey,
douchey,
greasey,
cabbagey,
chocolatey,
cliquey,
squiggley,
dog-whistley, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology