how to pronounce curly

/ˈkɜː.li/

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curly is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of curly in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… when cameron was very curly and dipg had …”

meanings of curly

adjective:

Having curls.
Complicated and difficult; knotty.
Curling in a direction, as opposed to straight (quotation marks or apostrophes).

name:

A nickname for a person with curly hair.
A nickname for a bald person.
A male given name.

noun:

A person or animal with curly hair.

curly frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word curly occurs in english on average 4.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics curly can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that curly can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;