Meaning

1 senses
  1. A wriggling movement.

More definitions
  • the act of wiggling

Examples

29 sentences
  1. Wriggle your toes.

    Поворуши пальцями ніг. — deniko

    ruПошевелите пальцами ног. — Wezel

  2. Tom wriggled his toes.

    deTom streckte seine Zehen aus. — pullnosemans

  3. Get a wriggle on.

    Хутчіш. — deniko

  4. The room was full of bugs, millions of small, wriggling bugs with lots of legs.

    Кімната була наповнена комахами, мільйонами дрібних багатолапкових комах, що звивалися. — ChickenKiev

  5. The worm wriggles.

    Хробак звивається. — deniko

    ruЧервяк извивается. — V_Zmoova

Translations

1 languages

Origin

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Lo

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).

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Forms

plural: wriggles
Singularwriggle
Pluralwriggles

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Relatedwriggly

See also

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