(v. i.) To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
(v. i.) To move about like an eel; to squirm.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the question of what writers owe their families is as old as the squiggles on papyrus in Tutankhamun’s tomb.
(2) Put simply it’s, “What the actual fuck?” “I don’t even think you are human!” cries one listener, flabbergasted by Broke Up and its squiggling rave synths, which sound as if they’re gasping for life.
(3) Among hipster witch-house acts, the nomenclatural trend is for unicode symbols, all squiggles and shapes; names such as GL▲SS †33†H and †‡† which aren't just hard to find on MySpace, they're almost impossible to type.
(4) The 27-year-old accused said: "The envelope says 'Ozzie', with some hearts and a squiggle, and then it says on the front of the card: 'Roses are red, violets are blue'.
(5) Thanks to the Mr Squiggles employed at PricewaterhouseCoopers and the work of some industrious journalists , the public now knows what an international tax “minimisation” scheme looks like.
(6) The art has a black squiggle spray-painted over it, the work of an apparent Banksy hater who, according to Goya, was stopped mid-defacement by a group of men who tackled him.
(7) When architect Frank Gehry unveiled his plans for a museum shaped like a massive glass cloud in the heart of Paris it looked little more than a few squiggles on a piece of paper.
(8) He told the court: “The envelope says ‘Ozzie’, with some hearts and a squiggle, and then it says on the front of the card: ‘Roses are red, violets are blue’.
(9) Piketty's figures show a clear upward trend to inequality in the UK since the 70s; the FT's preferred official data dissolves into a series of squiggles that show nothing conclusive.
(10) A commissioned mural is better – then you don’t get all the tagging.” Tagging is the tradition of writing your graffiti name everywhere, usually just a quick, illegible squiggle.
(11) Search hard, and phalluses appear among the squiggles (though American critics sometimes confused them with carrots or rockets), and in 1961 the juicy Ferragosto paintings recreated the mid-August holiday with lurid colours and brown scatological smears, applied once again with the left hand: Roland Barthes aptly described them as gestures of "dirtying", "deranging the morality of the body".
Tilde
Definition:
(n.) The accentual mark placed over n, and sometimes over l, in Spanish words [thus, –, /], indicating that, in pronunciation, the sound of the following vowel is to be preceded by that of the initial, or consonantal, y.
Example Sentences:
(1) Variance components were estimated by the tilde-hat approximation to REML.
(2) The tilde-hat approximation proved to be incompatible with animal models but was used for sire-maternal grandsire analysis of 765,868 first lactation records.
(3) The bent DNA, which showed temperature-dependent retardation during polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, was unique as its sequence was arranged as a symmetrical 'tilde' (approximately) structure.