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squiggle

/ˈskwɪɡl̩/

squiggle noun: a short twisting or wiggling line or mark.

Noun

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. (informal) Synonym of tilde.
    Synonyms:
    tilde
  3. An illegible scrawl.
  4. (rare) A burst of laughter.
    • […] 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, The Bravo of London
    • […] squiggles of laughter […]1977, Stuart Evans, The Caves of Alienation, page 281

Verb

squiggle (third-person singular simple present squiggles, present participle squiggling, simple past and past participle squiggled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To 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. (ambitransitive) To make a squiggle.
  3. (ambitransitive) To write illegibly.

squiggle meaning in Tamil

squiggle in Tamil

நெளிவுக் கோடு

Synonyms of squiggle

Forms of squiggle

Noun
pluralsquiggles
Verb
third-person singular presentsquiggles
present participlesquiggling
past participlesquiggled
pastsquiggled

Origin of squiggle

Probably a blend of squirm + wiggle.

Words formed from squiggle

Words that rhyme with squiggle

Questions about squiggle

What does squiggle mean?
Squiggle means a short twisting or wiggling line or mark.
What is squiggle in Tamil?
Squiggle in Tamil is நெளிவுக் கோடு. See Squiggle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is squiggle?
Squiggle can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce squiggle?
Squiggle is pronounced /ˈskwɪɡl̩/.
What is the plural of squiggle?
The plural of squiggle is squiggles.

Words near squiggle in the dictionary

  1. squig out
  2. squigged
  3. squigged out
  4. squigging
  5. squigging out
  6. squiggle
  7. squiggled
  8. squiggler
  9. squigglers
  10. squiggles
  11. squiggley

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: squiggle (page history and authors); squiggle (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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