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wriggle
[rig-uhl]
verb (used without object)
to twist to and fro; writhe; squirm.
to move along by twisting and turning the body, as a worm or snake.
to make one's way by shifts or expedients (often followed byout ).
to wriggle out of a difficulty.
verb (used with object)
to cause to wriggle.
to wriggle one's hips.
to bring, get, make, etc., by wriggling.
to wriggle one's way through a narrow opening.
noun
act of wriggling; a wriggling movement.
wriggle
/ ˈrɪɡəl /
verb
to make or cause to make twisting movements
(intr) to progress by twisting and turning
(intr; foll by into or out of) to manoeuvre oneself by clever or devious means
wriggle out of an embarrassing situation
noun
a wriggling movement or action
a sinuous marking or course
Other Word Forms
- wrigglingly adverb
- outwriggle verb (used with object)
- unwriggled adjective
- wriggler noun
- wriggly adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of wriggle1
Example Sentences
The Premier League has added some wriggle room, too, with a multi-year rolling allowance of 30% that permits clubs to spend beyond the limit.
Cassiopeia wriggled with excitement, for there was only one person this side of the veil who baked in this particular kind of way.
The girls did not rise up and jostle themselves into a happy, wriggling line to get their breakfasts, as Penelope remembered.
It had been hard for them to wriggle free of the brokers who covered rich people and to get into the arms of brokers who covered big, stock market–investing institutions.
He waited for guards to take a dinner break, then crept forward and clipped the first wire, crawled across the death strip, clipped the bottom of the second fence, and wriggled back into East Berlin.
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