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.
Wiktionary
n. The act of one who wriggles. vb. (present participle of wriggle English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "wriggling".
Meanwhile Alice, firmly attached to the pillar, went into a paroxysm of contortions and convulsions, wriggling, squirming, writhing, tugging frantically at her fastenings, shrieking, praying, uttering incoherent exclamations and ejaculations, her eyes starting out of her head, her quivering lips, her heaving bosom with its wildly palpitating breasts all revealing the agony of body and mind that she was enduring!
For a moment he thought the walls boiled, for at dozens of points around the cavern more worms emerged from the ubiquitous perforations, their tips wriggling obscenely, some with eyes and a dress of filaments like slender versions of Hafaz colony, but most naked and blind, glistening wet.
She pinched at it, and broken bits of wriggling filament came away in her fingers.
The tail of that sinuous line of night-marchers seemed very horrible, and as I saw them wriggling into a venerable tomb they seemed more horrible still.
For the terror had not faded with the silhouette, and in a fearsome instant of deeper darkness the watchers saw wriggling at that tree top height a thousand tiny points of faint and unhallowed radiance, tipping each bough like the fire of St.
My dread at wriggling through again was infinite, for my first passage had made some noise, and I now--after seeing those possible prints--dreaded sound above all things.
Then there came a dream of wind--pursued climbing and crawling--of wriggling into a blaze of sardonic moonlight through a jumble of debris which slid and collapsed after me amidst a morbid hurricane.
The beings moved in the sea partly by swimming--using the lateral crinoid arms--and partly by wriggling with the lower tier of tentacles containing the pseudofeet.
I felt him turning and wriggling about as he looked back at the terrible receding city, ahead at the cave-riddled, cube-barnacled peaks, sidewise at the bleak sea of snowy, rampart-strewn foothills, and upward at the seething, grotesquely clouded sky.
My hand delightedly roved over the fat plump cheeks of her arse, stroking, caressing and pinching them, revelling in the firmness and elasticity of her flesh under its thin covering, Alice all the time, wriggling and squirming in horrible shame, imploring me almost incoherently to desist and finally getting so semi-hysterical, that I was compelled to suspend my exquisite game.
Without losing time, I administered another, and another, and another, Alice simply now yelling with the pain, and wriggling in a marvellous way considering how tightly she was tied down.
With a smile of intense delight, Alice repeated her kiss, then again and again, Connie at each repetition squirming and wriggling in the most delicious way, her vehement plunging telling Alice what flames her hot kisses had aroused in Connie.
It was delicious to watch the mother and the daughter writhing and wriggling but I did not want their cunts touched yet by the girls and so appeared on the scene with Fanny, whom I had refrained with difficulty from fucking when she exposed herself naked in my alcove.
I sternly repeated as I sent cut after cut on her wriggling plunging backside, till she could no longer endure the pain, and half hysterically raised her head and opened her mouth.
Tail swishing, body wriggling lizard fashion from side to side, he charged.