Slithery vs Squiggly - What's the difference?
slithery | squiggly |
Not straight; wavy.
(computing, informal) A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or code.
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As adjectives the difference between slithery and squiggly
is that slithery is that slithers; that moves like a snake while squiggly is not straight; wavy.As a noun squiggly is
(computing|informal) a wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or code.squiggly
English
Adjective
(er)- She didn't have a ruler, so she drew a squiggly line to highlight the main points.
Noun
(squigglies)- If you have dynamic spell checking enabled, your pamphlet will become a sea of red squigglies .
- Coding errors have colored squigglies beneath them to indicate the kind of error. For example, syntax errors appear with red squigglies beneath them...
- The next blue squiggly is in the word Dimm. That should be an easy fix. Change it to Dim. Again, that swats two bugs with one fix.
