Curly
['kɜːlɪ] or ['kɝli]
Definition
(adj.) (of hair) having curls or waves; 'they envied her naturally curly hair' .
Editor: Martin--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
Checker: Willa
Examples
- The curly crop has lengthened into a thick coil, more becoming to the small head atop of the tall figure. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She is a little girl, in a spencer, with a round face and curly flaxen hair. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The shape of the letters on my father's, gave me an odd idea that he was a square, stout, dark man, with curly black hair. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Young Lambton, the little curly-headed Opposition man, second son of Lady Ann Wyndham, now interrupted us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- His hair, too, as he swept off his very curly-brimmed hat, was grizzled round the edges and thin upon the top. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now for it, said she, as she stood before the glass, and shook down her silky abundance of black curly hair. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She had big but nice-looking hands and her thick curly black hair was twisted into a knot on her neck. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- His linen was of the very whitest, finest, and stiffest; his wig of the glossiest, blackest, and curliest. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Checker: Muriel