wiggler

[ wig-ler ]

noun

1. a person or thing that wiggles.
2. wriggler ( def 2 ).
3. Southern U.S. an earthworm.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wiggler¹

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

Example Sentences

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.

From Science News For Students

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

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One Wiggler would not dive until he was sure a certain Robin had seen his new suit.

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At the tail-end of his body each Wiggler now had two leaf-like things with which he swam through the water.

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One little Wiggler crossed his feelers at him, and they say that it is just as bad to do that as to make faces.

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It is now some thirty years since I discovered "Professor Wiggler," and noted his peculiar eccentricities.

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