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.
- mine pit
- mine-planter
- mine plough
- mine plow
- mineproof
- miner
- minera
- mineragrapher
- mineragraphic
- mineragraphy
- mineral
- mineral acid
- mineral alkali
- mineral blue
- mineral coal
- mineral dresser
- mineral dressing
- mineral fiber
- mineral fibre
- mineral gray
- mineral green
- mineral grey
- mineralise
- mineralist
- minerality