Squiggler vs Squigglier - What's the difference?
squiggler | squigglier |
anything that squiggles
*2004': The end of the losing arrived in a Yankee game against Oakland, when the Pinstripes, down by 8-4 in the eighth inning, were granted a succession of feeble singles, nubbed infield '''squigglers , three walks, and a two-run double, good for six runs and, in time, the win. — ''The New Yorker, 10 May 2004
(squiggly)
Not straight; wavy.
(computing, informal) A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or code.
* 2007 , Pariah S. Burke, Mastering InDesign CS3 for Print Design and Production (page 72)
* 2008 , Rick Leinecker, Vanessa L. Williams, Visual Studio 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies (page 484)
* 2010 , James S. McKeown, Jim McKeown, Programming in Visual Basic 2010: The Very Beginner's Guide (page 75)
As a noun squiggler
is anything that squiggles.As an adjective squigglier is
comparative of squiggly.squiggler
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(en noun)squigglier
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Adjective
(head)squiggly
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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.