資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Curlycue \Curl"y*cue\ (k?rl"?-k?), n. [Cf. F. caracole.]
   Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen
   on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome
   caper. [Sometimes written {carlicue}.] [ Colloq. U.S.]

   {To cut a curlycue}, to make a flourish; to cut a caper.

            I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a
            curlycue with my right foot.          --McClintock.