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say it: KUR-lur
curler is a noun meaning "a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it". It is pronounced /ˈkɝlɚ/ — KUR-lur. It carries one recorded sense.
a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it
“a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for curler come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.