wiggly

[ wig-lee ]
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adjective,wig·gli·er, wig·gli·est.
  1. wiggling: a wiggly child.

  2. undulating; wavy: a wiggly line.

Origin of wiggly

1
First recorded in 1900–05; wiggle + -y1

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How to use wiggly in a sentence

  • If protocol demands that John Edwards look like a banker, his daughter dresses as though she could be going to a Piggly-wiggly.

  • Jess cut the wiggly s, because she had the better knife, while Violet struggled with the e.

    The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • It deserves the name, all right,” commented Spider Sexton, “for I never saw such a wiggly stream in all my born days.

  • The medico who ran the electro-cardiograph refused to make sense, after the fifth trials, out of the wiggly marks on his graphs.

    Cue for Quiet | Thomas L. Sherred
  • But this here wiggly printin—no, no, it dont look reasonable.

    Cursed | George Allan England
  • So it isn't exactly a go-as-you-please place, and if you shut your eyes it still seems the wiggly hotel that we expected.

    Howards End | E. M. Forster