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wiggle

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wig·gle

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

—Related forms
outwiggle, verb (used with object),-gled, -gling.
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wiggle (ˈwɪɡəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
—vb
1.  to move or cause to move with jerky movements, esp from side to side
 
—n
2.  the act or an instance of wiggling
3.  slang chiefly (US) get a wiggle on to hurry up
 
[C13: from Middle Low German, Middle Dutch wiggelen]
 
'wiggler
 
—n
 
'wiggly
 
—adj

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wiggle
early 13c., 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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