squiggle

A short twisting or wiggling line or mark.

Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?

Synonym of tilde.

An illegible scrawl.

To wriggle or squirm.

When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.

To make a squiggle.

To write illegibly.