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squiggle

noun
/ˈskwɪɡl̩/

Etymology

Probably a blend of squirm + wiggle.

  1. derived from wigelen
  2. derived from wigelen
  3. inherited from wiglen
  4. compounded as squiggle — “squirm + wiggle”

Definitions

  1. A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.

    • Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?

  2. Synonym of tilde.

  3. An illegible scrawl.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. A burst of laughter.

      • […] she dodged out again and rejoined the fleeing band which was retiring down the street to a noisy accompaniment of feigned alarm, squiggles of meaningless laughter, […]
      • […] squiggles of laughter […]

    2. To wriggle or squirm.

      • When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.

    3. To make a squiggle.

    4. To write illegibly.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at squiggle. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01squiggle02twisting03commission04sending05sent06scent07left08tilde

A definitional loop anchored at squiggle. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at squiggle

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA