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    Squiggly describes a line that twists and curls in an irregular way — not straight, not a neat circle, just wandering. Think of the line a child draws when they scribble, or the wavy your computer puts under a word it thinks is spelled wrong, or the shape of a worm moving. The key idea is that the curves are messy and . If a curve is smooth and regular, like the edge of a plate, we would not call it squiggly. It is a friendly, informal, slightly childish-sounding word — you hear it from teachers, parents, and designers, and you see it in everyday writing, but you would not usually put it in a serious report. People also use it about handwriting that is hard to read: "his signature is just a squiggly mess." A little more loosely, people say a person's stomach feels squiggly when they are nervous, though that use is rarer. The noun it comes from, a , is the mark itself; squiggly is what that mark looks like.

    彎彎曲曲的、歪歪扭扭的(形容線條)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成squiggle(隨手畫出的彎曲線條)+ -y(形容詞字尾,「有…樣子的」)。squiggle 本身大約是 squirm(扭動)和 wriggle(蠕動)混在一起的感覺詞,聲音本身就在模仿那個扭來扭去的動作。

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  • squigglethe noun this adjective is built on — the wavy mark itself
  • wrigglethe -iggle sound-pattern of small twisting movement

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

squigglyadj/ˈskwɪɡli/

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    informalNot straight; wavy and irregular.

    • She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
    • My first memories of eating are bowls of squiggly pasta with red sauce and lots of white cheese.

squigglynoun/ˈskwɪɡli/

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    informalcomputingengineeringmathematicsA wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or source code.

    • If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies.
    • Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。