hieroglyphic vs squiggle

hieroglyphic

noun
  • Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol. 

  • Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph. 

  • A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus 

adj
  • difficult to decipher 

  • of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols 

squiggle

noun
  • A short twisting or wiggling line or mark. 

  • Synonym of tilde. 

  • An illegible scrawl. 

verb
  • To write illegibly. 

  • To make a squiggle. 

  • To wriggle or squirm. 

How often have the words hieroglyphic and squiggle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )