squiggly

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Not straight

   Not straight; wavy and irregular.

   • She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
   • My first memories of eating are bowls of squiggly pasta with red sauce and lots of white cheese.
2. 2

   A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.

   • If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies.
   • Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...
   • The next blue squiggly is in the word Dimm. That should be an easy fix. Change it to Dim. Again, that swats two bugs with one fix.

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