wriggle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
Definition of wriggle
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
“Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.”
“Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.”
“I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
“Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.”
“Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.”
“I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.”
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(transitive)To cause something to wriggle.
“He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.”
- (intransitive)To use crooked or devious means.
noun
- A wriggling movement.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).
Words you can make from wriggle
37 playable · top: WIGGLER (12 pts)
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