English
Etymology
From curl + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
curly (comparative curlier, superlative curliest)
- Having curls.
- (typography) Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)
- (Australia) Complicated and difficult; knotty.
2005, Chris Cooper, Behind the Private Eye: The Private Investigator's Secrets, →ISBN, page 176:Often, the job will throw you a curly problem that will cause the unprepared to fail, so it is best to prepare an investigative plan before starting work.
Derived terms
Translations
having curls
- Arabic: مُجَعَد m (mujaʕad)
- Egyptian Arabic: مجعد m (megaʕad), ملولو m (melawlew)
- Armenian: գանգուր (hy) (gangur), խուճուճ (hy) (xučuč)
- Bashkir: бөҙрә (böźrə)
- Bulgarian: къдра́в (bg) (kǎdráv), вълни́ст (bg) (vǎlníst)
- Catalan: arrissat (ca)
- Cebuano: kulot
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 捲曲的 / 卷曲的 (zh) (juǎnqū de)
- Czech: kudrnatý, vlnitý (cs)
- Danish: krøllet
- Dutch: krullig (nl), krullerig (nl)
- Esperanto: bukla
- Finnish: kihara (fi), kiharainen (fi), kiemurteleva
- French: bouclé (fr), frisé (fr)
- Galician: crecho (gl), crespo, rizo
- Georgian: ხუჭუჭი (xuč̣uč̣i), ხვეული (xveuli), გრუზა (gruza), ტალღოვანი (ṭalɣovani), ტალღისებრი (ṭalɣisebri)
- German: lockig (de)
- Greek: κατσαρός (el) (katsarós)
- Hebrew: מתולתל m (metultal), מתולתלת f (metultelet)
- Higaonon: kulut
- Hungarian: göndör (hu)
- Ingrian: käherä
- Irish: catach, coirníneach, casta
- Italian: arricciato (it)
- Japanese: 巻き毛の (ja) (まきげの, makige no)
- Khmer: រួញ (km) (ruəñ)
- Latin: crispus
- Macedonian: кадрав (kadrav)
- Malay: keriting (ms), kerinting, pepuah
- Manx: cast, cassagagh, keshagagh
- Maori: māwhai (refers to hair), mingi, mingimingi, tete (referring to hair), tete, makaka (refers to hair), māwhatu (refers to hair)
- Middle English: crisp
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kędzierzawy (pl), kręcony (pl)
- Portuguese: cacheado (pt)
- Romanian: creț (ro)
- Russian: кудря́вый (ru) (kudrjávyj), курча́вый (ru) (kurčávyj), кучеря́вый (ru) (kučerjávyj), волни́стый (ru) (volnístyj), вью́щийся (ru) (vʹjúščijsja)
- Scottish Gaelic: bachalach, dualach, cùrlach, cuaileanach, bachlach, bachlagach
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: коврчав
- Roman: kovrčav (sh)
- Spanish: rizado (es), chino (es), crespo (es)
- Swedish: lockig (sv), krullig (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Turkish: kıvırcık (tr), cingelek
- Ukrainian: кучеря́вий (kučerjávyj), хвиля́стий (xvyljástyj)
- Vietnamese: xoăn (vi), quăn (vi)
- Yiddish: געקרײַזלט (gekrayzlt)
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(typography) curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes)
Noun
curly (plural curlies)
- a person or animal with curly hair.
Translations
a person or animal with curly hair
- Arabic: مُجَعَد m (mujaʕad)
- Egyptian Arabic: كرلي m (kerli)
- Armenian: գանգուր (hy) (gangur), խուճուճ (hy) (xučuč)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
- Czech: kudrnáč m
- Danish: krøltop c
- Dutch: krullenbol (nl) m or f
- Finnish: kiharapää (person)
- French: frisé (fr)
- Galician: crecho (gl) m, crecha f
- Georgian: ხვეულთმიანი (xveultmiani), ხუჭუჭთმიანი (xuč̣uč̣tmiani)
- German: Lockenkopf (de) m, Wuschelkopf (de) m
- Hindi: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: catachán m
- Italian: riccioluto (it) m
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Polish: kręconowłosy m
- Portuguese: encaracolado (pt) m
- Russian: кудря́вый (ru) m (kudrjávyj)
- Spanish: rizado (es) m
- Vietnamese: người tóc xoăn
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