wriggle

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈɹɪɡəl/

Verb

wriggle (wriggles, present participle wriggling; past and past participle wriggled)

1. (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.

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5

     Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.

2. (transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.

   He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.

3. (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.

Translations

• French: remuer, se tortiller
• German: sich winden, schlängeln, zappeln
• Italian: contorcersi
• Portuguese: contorcer-se
• Russian: извива́ться
• Spanish: retorcer, serpentear

Translations

• Portuguese: contorcer

Noun

wriggle (plural wriggles)

1. A wriggling movement.

Translations

• Italian: contorsione

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