FLOURISH (embellishment)
NOUNS
► CUES little flourishes on handwriting or a signature to make it look fancy → 1970 Amer. dial.
► CUE-WHIFFS little flourishes on handwriting or a signature to make it look fancy → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CURL a little flourish on handwriting → 1962 Amer. dial.
► CURLIMACUES little flourishes on handwriting to make it look fancy → 1951 Amer. dial.
► CURLY a little flourish on handwriting; a curlicue → 1965 Amer. dial.
► CURLYCUES flourishes → 1905 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► CURVICUE a curlicue; a little flourish on handwriting, etc. → 1851 Amer. dial.
► DASH a flourish in writing → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► DIDO a little flourish on handwriting → 1968 Amer. dial.
► DINKY-FLINK little flourishes on handwriting → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ENGLISH a flourish in handwriting; a curlicue → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ORPICUES flourishes in handwriting, curlicues, and the like → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► PARAFFLE a flourish, ostentatious display, fuss → 1816 Sc.
► PIGTAIL a curlicue; a little flourish on one’s handwriting or signature → 1966 Amer. dial.
► QUAVER a flourish → 1885 Eng. dial.
► SQUIRL a flourish in writing → c1840 colloq.
► THROW a flourish in writing → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIRLY-WIRLY ► TURLIE-WHURLIE a flourish; a fanciful decoration; a figure or ornament of any kind → 1785 Sc.
► VARIORUM a flourish in handwriting; any unnecessary appendage → 1864 Sc.
► WHIRLICUE ► WHIRLY-CUE a curlicue; a little flourish on handwriting or one’s signature to make it look fancy → 1942 Amer. sl.
► WHIRLIGIG ► WHIRLIJIG a curlicue; a little flourish on handwriting or one’s signature to make it look fancy → 1967 Amer. sl.
► WHIRLIMACUE a curlicue; a little flourish on handwriting or one’s signature to make it look fancy → 1942 Amer. sl.
VERBS
► DASH to flourish in writing, to make ornamental figures with a pen → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► PAVIE to wave about; to flourish ostentatiously → 1838 Sc.
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