curly-wurly
adjective informal
Twisting and curling.You're a pig and there's your curly-wurly tail....
- The plot does a bit of a curly-wurly at the end that shows a glimmer of originality, but not enough to save it.
Origin
Late 18th century: reduplication of curly.
- aggrave
- aggregability
- aggregable
- aggregant
- aggregate
- aggregate demand
- aggregate fruit
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- aggregateness
- aggregate recoil
- aggregate score
- aggregate supply
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- aggregation pheromone
- aggregative
- aggregative pill
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- aggregometer
- aggress
- aggressee
- aggressin
- aggressine
- aggression
- aggressive