squiggle

plural squiggles

1. A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.

   Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?

   1939, Flora Thompson, Lark Rise

2. informalSynonym of tilde.

   Synonyms: tilde

3. An illegible scrawl.
4. rareA burst of laughter.

   […] squiggles of laughter […]

   1977, Stuart Evans, The Caves of Alienation, page 281

   1 more example

   […] she dodged out again and rejoined the fleeing band which was retiring down the street to a noisy accompaniment of feigned alarm, squiggles of meaningless laughter, […]

   1934, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], The Bravo of London

present singular third person squiggles · participle present squiggling · participle past squiggled · past squiggled

1. ambitransitiveTo wriggle or squirm.

   When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.

   1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9

2. ambitransitiveTo make a squiggle.
3. ambitransitiveTo write illegibly.