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▪ I. ˈsquiggle, n.1
[Imitative.]
A giggle or sniggle.
1898B. Capes Adv. Comte de la Muette v. 92, I was betrayed into a squiggle of laughter.
▪ II. squiggle, n.2|ˈskwɪg(ə)l|
[f. next.]
1. A wriggly twist or curve; esp. a wavy or twisting line drawn on a surface.
1902W. W. Jacobs Lady of Barge 10 ‘How does my hair look?’ ‘All wavy,..all little curls and squiggles.’ 1928Daily Express 9 July 10/3 No hieroglyphics in timetables to be looked up, no particular squiggle to be remembered lest one is unhooked from the express at Dijon or goes to Rome instead of Florence. 1934R. Fry Let. 3 Aug. (1972) II. 692 The squiggles in the foreground represent runnels of water flowing everywhere. 1957V. S. Naipaul Mystic Masseur v. 78 The handwriting became a hasty, tired squiggle, and the note-book was abandoned. 1979Listener 3 May 603/3 From time to time, squiggles appeared on the screen which were interpreted by some as subliminal instructions to vote labour.
2. Comb., as squiggle-eyed adv.: in phr. to look squiggle-eyed (at someone), to view askance or unfavourably. Also as adj. (Only in P. G. Wodehouse.)
1927Wodehouse Meet Mr Mulliner vi. 178 There is a certain stage in the progress of a man's love when he feels like curling up in a ball and making little bleating noises if the object of his affections so much as looks squiggle-eyed at him. 1941― Berlin Broadcasts in Performing Flea (1961) i. 265 The internee is always being told to show his passport, and if he has not got one, the authorities tend to look squiggle-eyed. 1960― Jeeves in Offing xii. 136 She's always been a bit squiggle-eyed about Phyllis, because in Switzerland she held the view that we were a shade too matey. 1972― Pearls, Girls & Monty Bodkin i. 9 He was very fond of her—in a brotherly way, of course, to which even Gertrude Butterwick, always inclined to look squiggle-eyed at his female friends, could not have taken exception.
▪ III. ˈsquiggle, v. Chiefly dial. and U.S.
[Imitative: cf. sniggle v.3 and wriggle v.]
1. intr. ? To work wavy or intricate embroidery. Hence ˈsquiggling vbl. n.
1804in Francis Lett. (1901) II. 536 A pink velvet on her head—a good many necklaces—a vast deal of squiggling. Ibid. 549 Emily who had before thought her success depended very much on squiggling on a Worked Habit Shirt every afternoon.
2. To writhe about; to squirm or wriggle. Also fig.
1816Pickering Vocab. U.S., To Squiggle, to move about like an eel. 1895–9in Eng. Dial. Dict. 1922W. Stevens in Dial July 91 Our bawdiness..Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. 1978Detroit Free Press 16 Apr. d11/1 Snitman..drew from the water a thin, blackish-brown worm that squiggled in his palm, trying to sink tiny teeth into his flesh.
3. trans. To shake about (a liquid); to write (something) in a squiggly manner, to scrawl; to squeeze or daub (paint) from a tube thus.
a1825–in dial. glossaries (E. Anglia, Essex, Nhp., Warw.). 1942N. Balchin Darkness falls from Air vi. 108, I signed it. Lennox squiggled underneath, ‘I foresee difficulties but the scheme is right in principle. J.L.’ 1969Observer 12 Jan. 8/5, I watched a little girl squiggle yellow and red paint on a piece of white paper. 1973Daily Tel. 24 Oct. 17/2 It was the 15th tube [of paint], so I squiggled it on. |
