Meaning

3 senses
  1. Anything that wriggles (literally or figuratively).

    The larva of a mosquito.

    larva of a mosquito

  2. Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.

  3. A cunning or tricky person.

Origin

From wriggle + -er.

From wriggle + -er.

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Forms

plural: wrigglers
Singularwriggler
Pluralwrigglers

regular

Synonyms

4 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

1 related words
Relatedwriggle

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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