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Jan 8, 2019
This week’s themePortmanteaux (blend words)
This week’s words
rurban
squiggle
Chihuly
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PRONUNCIATION:
(SKUI-guhl) 
MEANING:
| noun: | An irregularly curling or looping line, string, etc. |
| verb tr., intr.: | 1. To make an irregularly curling or looping line. 2. To squirm or wriggle. 3. To scribble. |
ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps a blend of squirm + wriggle. Earliest documented use: 1804.
USAGE:
“There was nothing I wouldn’t eat. Well, apart from tinned spaghetti, that is, whose loops and squiggles slopping around in that fluorescent orange sauce somehow managed to turn my stomach when nothing else did.”
Fionnuala Ward; I Was Fin-ish, But Now I’m Finished with Fish; Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland); Nov 20, 2018.
See more usage examples of squiggle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
Fionnuala Ward; I Was Fin-ish, But Now I’m Finished with Fish; Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland); Nov 20, 2018.
See more usage examples of squiggle in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see. -Baltasar Gracian, writer and philosopher (8 Jan 1601-1658)
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