Meanings
nouncurly cuh (plural curly cuhs)
plural curly cuhs
- UKchildishThe letter C, as distinct from the letter K ("kicking kuh").
Or did it start as Kill It Bang before they decided to soften it slightly by changing the kicking kuh to a curly cuh?
2014, Dave Gorman, Too Much Information, Random House, page 1811 more example
(Sometimes these are spelt with a kicking ‘kuh’ rather than a curly ‘cuh’ as ‘homoskedasticity’ and ‘heteroskedasticity’.)
2018, Alan R. Jones, Best Fit Lines & Curves: And Some Mathe-Magical Transformations, Routledge, page 174
Origin
From the shape of the letter.
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curly cuh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/curly%20cuh
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