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[kur-lee]

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adjective, curl·i·er, curl·i·est.

curling or tending to curl: curly blond hair.

having curls (usually used in combination): curlyheaded.

having a rippled or undulating appearance, as cut and finished wood: curly maple.

Origin:
1720–30; curl + -y¹

Related forms

curl·i·ness, noun

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a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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curly (ˈkɜːlɪ)

—*adj* , curlier, curliest
1.	tending to curl; curling
2.	having curls
3.	(of timber) having irregular curves or waves in the grain
4.	(Austral), (NZ) difficult to counter or answer: a curly question

'curliness

—n

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Word Origin & History

curly

1770s, from curl; earliest use is of hair.

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curly definition

n.
a bald person, almost always a male. (Also a jocular term of address.) : Well, Curly, looks like you got your dome sunburned!

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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