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haircurling

haircurling 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 haircurling

comparativemore haircurling
superlativemost haircurling

Questions about haircurling

What is haircurling the alternative form of?
Haircurling is the alternative form of hair-curling.

Words near haircurling in the dictionary

  1. haircoats
  2. haircolor
  3. haircolors
  4. haircomb
  5. haircombs
  6. haircurling
  7. haircut
  8. haircut band
  9. haircut bands
  10. haircuts
  11. haircutted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: haircurling (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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