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l] Pronunciation Key verb, -gled, -gling, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to move or go with short, quick, irregular movements from side to side: The puppies wiggled with delight.

–verb (used with object)

2.	to cause to wiggle; move quickly and irregularly from side to side.

–noun

3.	a wiggling movement or course.

4.	a wiggly line.

5.	a dish of creamed fish or shellfish and peas.

—Idiom

6.	get a wiggle on, Informal. to hurry up; get a move on: If you don't get a wiggle on, we'll miss the first act.

[Origin: 1175–1225; ME wiglen; akin to OE wegan to move, wég motion, wicga insect; cf. Norw vigla to totter, freq. of vigga to rock oneself, D, LG wiggelen

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wig·gle Audio Help   (wĭg'əl) Pronunciation Key
v.   wig·gled, wig·gling, wig·gles

v.   intr.

To move back and forth with quick irregular motions: The gelatin wiggled on the plate.
1. To move or proceed with a twisting or turning motion; wriggle: wiggled restlessly in her chair; wiggled through the crowd.
2. To insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means: wiggled out of a social engagement.

v. tr.

To cause to move back and forth with quick irregular motions: wiggle a loose tooth.
To make (one's way, for example) by or as if by wiggling: The pitcher wiggled his way out of a jam.

n. A wiggling movement or course.

[Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Low German wiggelen, to totter; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.]

wig'gly adj.

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wiggle (v.)

c.1225, perhaps from M.Du. or M.Flem. wigelen, frequentative of wiegen "to rock," from wiege "cradle" (cf. O.H.G. wiga, Ger. Wiege, O.Fris. widze), from PIE base *wegh- "to move" (see weigh). The noun is attested from 1816.

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wiggle
noun
1.	the act of wiggling
verb
1.	move to and fro; "Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!" [syn: jiggle]

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wiggle [ˈwigl] verb

to waggle or wriggle
Example: She wiggled her hips.

Arabic:	يَتَذَبْذَب
Chinese (Simplified):	摆动，扭动
Chinese (Traditional):	擺動，扭動
Czech:	kroutit
Danish:	vrikke med
Dutch:	wiegelen
Estonian:	kõigutama
Finnish:	keikutella
French:	tortiller (de)
German:	wackeln (mit)
Greek:	κουνώ, σείω πέρα δώθε
Hungarian:	tekergőzik
Icelandic:	rugga, vagga
Indonesian:	menggoyangkan
Italian:	dimenare, muovere

Japanese:	くねらせる
Korean:	…을 흔들다; 흔들리다
Latvian:	grozīt; gorīt
Lithuanian:	kraipyti
Norwegian:	vrikke (med), sprelle
Polish:	kręcić
Portuguese (Brazil):	ondular, sacudir
Portuguese (Portugal):	saracotear
Romanian:	a mişca din (şolduri etc.)
Russian:	покачивать
Slovak:	krútiť, vrtieť
Slovenian:	migati
Spanish:	menear
Swedish:	vicka med (på), vrida på
Turkish:	sallamak, oynatmak