Crossword clues for wriggle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Wriggled; p. pr. & vb. n. Wriggling.] [Freq. of wrig, probably from OE. wrikken to move to and fro; cf. LG. wriggeln, D. wrikken, Sw. vricka, Dan. vrikke.] To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.
Both he and successors would often wriggle in their
seats,
as long as the cushion lasted.
--Swift.
Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, v. t. To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.
Covetousness will wriggle itself out at a small hole.
--Fuller.
Wriggling his body to recover
His seat, and cast his right leg over.
--Hudibras.
Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, a.
Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible. [Obs.] ``Their wriggle
tails.''
--Spenser.
Wriggle \Wrig"gle\, n. Act of wriggling; a short or quick writhing motion or contortion.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from Middle Low German wrigglen "to wriggle," from Proto-Germanic *wreik- "to turn" (see wry). Related to Old English wrigian "to turn, incline, go forward."
Wiktionary
n. A wriggling movement. vb. (context intransitive English) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
WordNet
Usage examples of "wriggle".
Pasgen would read in her words how much her arms ached to curve around a small, warm body, to hold a child that wriggled and laughed and cuddled against her for comfort.
Slipping the tools back into his coat, Alec pulled himself up by the window frame and wriggled in feet first.
Presently I heard a discreet tapping on the doorboard of the hut which I at once removed, wriggling swiftly through the hole, careless in my misery as to whether I met an assegai the other side of it or not.
Rosalind murmured in an awed tone, holding up the wriggling puppy and peering into his black button eyes.
Knuckles dinged and bleeding, his clothes white, nose filled with plaster dust, he bashed a hole big enough, dropped the hammer and wriggled through, tearing his cape in the process.
Margaret let the water run out of the bathinette until only a few inches were left, and then loosed her hold on the wriggling baby.
Tip reached the bayberry bush, paused to yap once at her master, and then wriggled through the bush and after the deer.
With mouths glued to each other they plunged, curvetted, wriggled, squirmed, till the blissful ecstasy overtook them both simultaneously, when madly they bedewed each other with their love-juice to the accompaniment of the most exquisite quiverings and thrillings, utterly absorbed in rapture!
Its rather limited behavioural repertoire is virtually confined to eating, sex and locomotion by means of convulsive wriggles.
The notion of being held down while wriggling by Mrs Biggs was more than he could bear.
The blob made no sound, except for the slimy slap of its wriggling, fatty skin on the surface of the bridge.
Little Ivan it was, anxiously searching the back-alley bars, who found Buffo still on his feet, though wavering, and led him back to Clown Alley, there to settle him on an upturned stool before a rectangle of cracked mirrors, where Buffo flailed about, wriggled, moaned and struggled to prevent Grik and Grok repairing the ravages his debauch had made upon his make-up.
She barely suppressed a fit of giggles as Cavilon wriggled his nose and cocked his head to acknowledge the woman.
His belly scraped the floor as he wriggled along with his cooing, rustling load- His eyes were running tears, and even if there had been light he would have been blind.
I let the propulsion wedge me firmly into a niche, then wriggled about until my right wrist was in contact with a rough coralline peg.