squiggley

English

Adjective

squiggley (comparative squigglier, superlative squiggliest)

1. Alternative spelling of squiggly.
   • 1986, W[illiam] P[atrick] Kinsella, “Indian Joe”, in The Fencepost Chronicles, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1987, →ISBN, pages 186–187:

     “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?”

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.