curlsome

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adjective

Characterised or marked by curls.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivecurlsome (comparative more curlsome, superlative most curlsome)

comparative more curlsome · superlative most curlsome

  1. Characterised or marked by curls.

    [...] snifflemas daisies and troublesome coughfulness; hibernating curlsome and logful smokefulness.

    2010, Susie Groom-Smith, Face at the Window
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    And time again My bluest lady fair Serenely still passed by And felt her goldlike Hair Ah! here a curlsome smile meekly awhile.

    1918, Eric Paul Schulze, Vers Ego

    Physics of H-eigenwaves in a periodic iris-loaded circular waveguide is generally characterized using a number of the typical power flows. Both the reflectionless flows and the ones contra-directional over the guide's cross-section are included, as well as the curlsome ones and others.

    1996, Serge K. Katenev, International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves: Volume 17, Issue 1

    Well, then take a qu[i]ck gander over at the Surf Channel, an online resource for everything curlsome and frothy.

    2007, Erik Olsen, Surf During Lunch

Origin

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APA

curlsome. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlsome

MLA

“curlsome.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlsome. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “curlsome,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curlsome.

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