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A short twisting line
Answer for the clue "A short twisting line ", 8 letters:
squiggle
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Word definitions for squiggle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Squiggle \Squig"gle\, v. i. [Cf. Squirm , Wiggle .] To move about like an eel; to squirm. [Low, U.S.] --Bartlett.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Squiggle may refer to: Another name for the ASCII character tilde Diacritical mark Mr. Squiggle , Australian children's TV puppet "Squiggle", nickname of the character Libby Fox in British TV soap EastEnders
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 a short twisting or wiggling line or mark 2 (context informal English) the tilde 3 an illegible scrawl vb. 1 to wriggle or squirm 2 to make a squiggle 3 to write (something) illegibly 4 To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed. ...
Usage examples of squiggle.
The semicolon has currently fallen out of fashion with newspapers, the official reason being that readers of newsprint prefer their sentences short, their paragraphs bite-sized and their columns of type uncluttered by wormy squiggles.
He considered gold inlay for the squiggles and doohickii, but the thingumbob was too intricate for goldwork, and a gold quid would seem ostentatious.
They contemplated the squiggles, quiggles, quids, thingumbobs, and doohickii in mystified silence.
They contemplated the squiggles, quiggles, quids, thingumbobs, and doohickii in mystified silence.
The disconnect had been so profound that Bashir clearly remembered his early, untransformed self not even attempting to understand what was going on: Naomi was simply uttering random noises, and the squiggles above the holoboard were only unrelated doodles.
Her notepad was a mass of doodles and squiggles, some in blue ink, some in black, not all of them hers.
The Stukas dove and pecked at the scattering tanks like gulls on the beach, high-pitched voices squalling, and Dimitri could do nothing but run circles, squiggles, any maneuver to thwart the onslaught.
My grandmother wrote back in her Yiddish scrawl, letters squiggled on the page, that I could not decipher without I N S I L E N C E 217 the aid of my teacher.
Those little squiggles you see there are telomeres, which shorten each time the cell divides.
He found nothing resembling the squiggles in the drawing, nor anything else to help him interpret its meaning, but after a long time he stumbled across a fragment of a book which contained a partially destroyed page whose subject matter was blueprinting.
Green corkscrews on a black field, squiggling so that they looked sharply three dimensional, as if the screen were a box.
Green corkscrews on a black field, squiggling so that they looked sharply three-dimensional, as if the screen were a box.
Pink Floyd blares out of speakers and red laser squiggles around the dark, domed ceiling, and I'm laughing so hard I can't stop.
But the commonest graffiti were in the sinuous squiggles of Arabic script, the letters all looking as if Hebrew block characters had run in the rain.
I don't know what you thought you were going to accomplish, but I'm pretty sure all of your squiggles and candles aren't going to do whatever you wanted them to, given that I broke your circle and smeared all your chalk lines.