Meaning

2 senses
  1. Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

    It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.

  2. Of a line: made up of many curves.

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More definitions
  • moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion
  • curved or curving in and out

Examples

1 sentences
  1. I'm a wiggly worm.

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Translations

1 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
made of many curves:

Origin

From wiggle + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiggelg, wiggelch (“wiggly”), German Low

From wiggle + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiggelg, wiggelch (“wiggly”), German Low German wiggelig (“wiggly, restless, fidgety”).

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Forms

wigglier, wiggliest
Comparativewigglier Lesson
Superlativewiggliest Lesson

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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