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wig·gle    Audio Help   [wig-uhl] 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.
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.
  1. 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.
  1. To cause to move back and forth with quick irregular motions: wiggle a loose tooth.
  2. 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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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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
See also: wiggly

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Wiggle

Pol"li*wig\, Polliwog \Pol"li*wog\, n. [OE. polwigle. Cf. Poll head, and Wiggle.] (Zo["o]l.) A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Wiggle

Squig"gle\, v. i. [Cf. Squirm, Wiggle.] To move about like an eel; to squirm. [Low, U.S.] --Bartlett.
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