Definitions for curly

curly curl·y

Spelling: [kur-lee]
IPA: /ˈkɜr li/

Curly is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in curly (clruy).

Definitions for curly

adjective

  1. curling or tending to curl:
  2. having curls (usually used in combination):
  3. having a rippled or undulating appearance, as cut and finished wood:

Origin of curly

First recorded in 1720-30; curl + -y1

Examples for curly

He was a short man, burly, with curly hair, and not an unpleasant face.

Her smile beamed out from under a head of short-cropped, curly black hair.

In person, Gondry is more Joel than Doc Brown—a fragile, soft-spoken man with a mop of curly brown hair.

You know she's red—I've really got a red one—a curly red one!

Suddenly, a  tall, curly haired white man appeared and thrust himself in the middle of the opposing forces.

Is it my fault, too, if my hair is too curly, and if I don't think just as other people do?

Apparently Game of Thrones directors are too—and they've made sure his curly brown 'do won't be going anywhere.

He looked so pretty with his curly hair that she could not resist him.

Among them was Rowena Estoya's husband Bernado, a bicycle rickshaw driver with curly hair and a patient manner.

Some one has remarked that all the good children who die have curly hair.'

Word Value for curly
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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