squiggley

comparative squigglier · superlative squiggliest

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of squiggly.

   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.

   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

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   “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?”

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

   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.

   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