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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wiggly
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She wrote with large wiggly letters.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And you see those wiggly lines on the top?
▪ Bottom turns and cut-backs are performed along the wave leaving a wiggly wake.
▪ The best practice is to try steering a controlled wiggly course using your weight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
wiggly

1878, from wiggle (n.) + -y (2).

Wiktionary
wiggly

a. 1 Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements. 2 (of a line) Made up of many curves

WordNet
wiggly
  1. adj. curved or curving in and out; "wiggly lines" [syn: sinuate, sinuous]

  2. having a twisting or snake-like or worm-like motion; "squirming boys"; "wiggly worms"; "writhing snakes" [syn: squirming, twisting, wiggling, wriggling, wriggly, writhing]

Usage examples of "wiggly".

I tried for a long time to conjure up an image of her before that, just a sliver of something, like her tucking me into bed, reading the adventures of Uncle Wiggly, or hanging my underclothes near the space heater on ice-cold mornings.

To distinguish the ensuing trajectory of the photon from the previous trajectories of the electron and positron, we follow a traditional physics convention and draw it with a wiggly line.

And the scut had hit the wiggly lure he had tied on the line, apparently charging full blast from somewhere out of range of the finder.

Pelican Liquors and the boarded up Piggly Wiggly and a bottle gang is shaping up for the evening on the next corner and they lift their paper bags to me and I just hurry on and I can see a containership slipping by at the far end of the street and I have to keep myself from running.

And, as for paleozoology, the Paleozoic would be nothing if not a big aquarium stocked with weird wiggly things and maybe a few big showy monsters.

It looked like the grandaddy of all brookies, a real mossback, dark greenish-blue above and silvery-white below, with pale wiggly markings up around the dorsal fin and blue-ringed yellow and pink spots on the flanks.

She was invested with the small gold medal from which depended two wiggly streamers.

On the face of a cathode-ray oscilloscope now in his field of view, a wiggly green trace diagrammed pulses which he was sure showed exactly how scared he was.

And ere that again, leada, laida, all unraidy, too faint to buoy the fairiest rider, too frail to flirt with a cygnet's plume, she was licked by a hound, Chirripa-Chirruta, while poing her pee, pure and simple, on the spur of the hill in old Kippure, in birdsong and shearingtime, but first of all, worst of all, the wiggly livvly, she sideslipped out by a gap in the Devil's glen while Sally her nurse was sound asleep in a sloot and, feefee fiefie, fell over a spillway before she found her stride and lay and .

And so the net is the basic thing we have for getting hold of the wiggly world.

So it isn't exactly a go-as-you-please place, and if you shut your eyes it still seems the wiggly hotel that we expected.

His lines were wiggly as grass snakes, his loops came out too large, and whole letters ended up backwards or upside down.

I get so bored with ordering three meals a day, three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and ruining my eyes over that horrid sewing-machine, and looking after your clothes and Rone's and Ted's and Tinka's and everybody's, and the laundry, and darning socks, and going down to the Piggly Wiggly to market, and bringing my basket home to save money on the cash-and-carry and—.

I knew a long wiggly thing like a rope bridge couldn't fall far without getting caught on something.

Attaching a diaphragm across the narrow end of a horn concentrates the sound energy and allows the needle to cut the wiggly line into a piece of waxor, as in the original, a piece of tin foil wound round a drum (Please look up Edison, Phonograph on the web).