| 单词 | curly |
| 释义 | curly (once / 988 pages) adj Something that's curly is wavy, coiled, or spiral-shaped. While you might envy your friend's straight, shiny hair, she may be equally envious of your wild, curly hair. You can add curly ribbons to a plain package to dress it up, or buy kale in different varieties, including one with curly leaves. You're most likely to use the adjective curly, however, to describe someone's hair, if it falls in ringlets. Curly comes from curl, which was originally crulle, probably from the Middle Dutch word krul, "curly." WORD FAMILYcurly: curlier, curliest, curliness+/curl: curled, curler, curling, curls, curly, uncurl/curler: curlers/curling: curlingly, curlings/uncurl: uncurled, uncurling, uncurls USAGE EXAMPLES“A good-looking kid with curly hair. He was just too sweet. I didn’t want to crush him.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 22, 2016) Favorites include wild arugula, “Freckles” romaine and “Red Sails” curly leaf. Los Angeles Times(Dec 17, 2016) Eaton wore his new jersey with the curly W and a red No. 2 on it. Washington Times(Dec 13, 2016) adj (of hair) having curls or waves they envied her naturally curly hair Syn|Ant curled, curling of hair having curls crisp, frizzly, frizzy, kinky, nappy(of hair) in small tight curls permedstyled with permanent waves ringleted(of hair) shaped into ringlets wavy(of hair) having waves straight (of hair) having no waves or curls uncurlednot having been curled unpermednot having had a permanent wave |
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