Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having curls.
- adjective Having the tendency to curl.
- adjective Having a wavy grain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Affected with curl. See
curl , n., 4 , *, *. - Having curls; tending to curl; full of curves, twists, or ripples.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
curls - noun a person or animal with curly hair.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective (of hair) having curls or waves
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the end of a further short period this develops into a light curly mass (_cauliflower_ or _curly head_), which gradually becomes lighter and more solid in appearance, and is then known as _rocky head_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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I do not have much hair anyway, so make me look like Curly, and show me the script!! alan you can put to play curly he look like curly is johnny salami steveorth
Sean Penn Signs Back on to Play Larry in Farrelly Brothers THREE STOOGES Film – Collider.com 2010
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With large dark eyes, olive complexion, and hair in curly dark ringlets, he was a striking young man.
Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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And these two are killers: Storm wild eye seeker shad and white bass assasin curly shad on a small gamakatsu swimbait hook.
I have been fishing the Susq for many years and have not caught one of the greats yet, the Musky. 2009
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With large dark eyes, olive complexion, and hair in curly dark ringlets, he was a striking young man.
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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And these two are killers: Storm wild eye seeker shad and white bass assasin curly shad on a small gamakatsu swimbait hook.
I have been fishing the Susq for many years and have not caught one of the greats yet, the Musky. 2009
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I seem to recall a certain curly haired Yonge street vendor flogging his poetry chapbooks.
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Photo: Entrepreneur Ouidad, who owns a salon that specializes in curly hair in Manhattan.
Immigrants start more businesses than native-born Americans 2008
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In addition, she said, there weren't as many weeds last winter, which cut down on the number of insects that transmit the chile-killing virus called curly top, the newspaper reported.
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Flexi, in short, curly hair and a camo fleece, immediately begins referring to me as manito, shorthand for little brother.
Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011
oroboros commented on the word curly
One of Peter Pan's lost boys.
August 9, 2009