Wriggle
['rɪg(ə)l] or ['rɪɡl]
Definition
(v. i.) To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
(v. t.) To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
(a.) Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Squirm, writhe.
Typist: Ruth
Definition
v.i. to twist to and fro: to move sinuously: to use crooked means.—v.t. to cause to wriggle.—n. the motion of wriggling.—ns. Wrigg′ler one who wriggles: one who uses trickery; Wrigg′ling;.
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Examples
- Holmes was outwardly calm, but his whole body gave a wriggle of suppressed excitement as he spoke. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- You've said it, a satellite, you're not going to wriggle out of it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- With the subsidence of Esmeralda the lioness renewed her efforts to wriggle her huge bulk through the weakening lattice. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Holmes chuckled and wriggled in his chair, as was his habit when in high spirits. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So little Tarzan wriggled out from beneath the struggling mass, clutching his grisly prize close to his breast. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- And pray, continued Hodson, where's the perpetual motion you were wriggling after so long? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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