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hair curling

hair curling is the alternative form of hair-curling.

Meaning of hair-curling

Adjective

hair-curling (comparative more hair-curling, superlative most hair-curling)

  1. (idiomatic) Exciting, astonishing, frightening, or horrifying.
    • But, first and foremost, "Retreat with Stilwell" is a rip snorting, spine tingling, hair curling story, and as such it is quite likely to hold you.1943 March 14, Arthur Otis, “Belden Pens a Hair-Curling Story of Disaster in Burma”, in Chicago Daily Tribune, retrieved 09 Nov 2010, page F10
    Synonyms:
    hair-raising

Forms of hair curling

comparativemore hair curling
superlativemost hair curling

Questions about hair curling

What is hair curling the alternative form of?
Hair curling is the alternative form of hair-curling.

Words near hair curling in the dictionary

  1. hair clips
  2. hair conditioner
  3. hair conditioners
  4. hair curler
  5. hair curlers
  6. hair curling
  7. hair cut
  8. hair cuts
  9. hair divider
  10. hair dividers
  11. hair dresser

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hair curling (page history and authors); hair-curling (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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