I didn’t even have to lift a finger to get the word for today. No flipping, no nothing. How quickly I’ve sold out.
Recently, I’ve got pretty obsessed with The Cranberries, the Irish rock band from the ’90s whose lead singer died earlier this year. Yet again, I’ve missed the boat on something BUT this word was used to describe Dolores O’Riordan’s voice in a review I read and it fits so well.
Side note: as soon as I like something, music especially, I immediately look up reviews to validate my opinions because I cannot do so without external influence. Who wants to be an individual with fully formed views and thoughts? Sounds like too much hard work.
Wow, I don’t update for a few weeks and suddenly it’s logorrhoea all around. Onto the word!
curlicue (noun)
According to Macquarie here, a curlicue, also spelled as curlycue, is a “fantastic curl or twist”.
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It’s astonishing sometimes how a dictionary entry strips the magic of the word back to something quite stark or possibly about Shirley Temple’s hair.
Anyway, with the sound of Cordell ringing in my ears, I implore you to picture a feather-light voice twisting high in a modified yodel, the filigree patterns of a wrought iron gate, the tight green spiral of unfurled fern fronds when you read this neat little word.