curlicued

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"And, though I shrink from trying either to write or decode the curlicued Ukrainian cursive, just forming these letters is a joy for the hand: the twin sweep of a З (z) and the harsh angles of a Д (d), which I like to write as a triangle with a pair of sharp, inward-facing tails dangling from it."

Etymology tree English curlicue Old English -ed Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂tos Proto-Germanic *-ōdaz Old English -od Middle English -ed English -ed English curlicued From curlicue + -ed.

more curlicued (comparative) most curlicued (superlative)

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