wiggler

[ wig-ler ]

noun
  1. a person or thing that wiggles.

  1. Southern U.S. an earthworm.

Origin of wiggler

1
First recorded in 1890–95; wiggle + -er1

regional variation note For wiggler

See earthworm.

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How to use wiggler in a sentence

  • Enrico Lanza, a physicist who studies neuroscience with Folli, did this by genetically tweaking some of the wigglers so that when a specific neuron got activated, it lit up.

  • It must be floated on the water at first, or until it reaches the point of development into a wiggler.

    Life: Its True Genesis | R. W. Wright
  • One wiggler would not dive until he was sure a certain Robin had seen his new suit.

    Among the Night People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • At the tail-end of his body each wiggler now had two leaf-like things with which he swam through the water.

    Among the Night People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • One little wiggler crossed his feelers at him, and they say that it is just as bad to do that as to make faces.

    Among the Night People | Clara Dillingham Pierson
  • It is now some thirty years since I discovered "Professor wiggler," and noted his peculiar eccentricities.

    Eye Spy | William Hamilton Gibson