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wriggle

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1. wriggle - Noun

2. wriggle - Adjective

3. wriggle - Verb

Meaning

To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about.

To move with short, quick contortions; to move by twisting and squirming; like a worm.

Wriggling; frisky; pliant; flexible.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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First time you hear something, it sounds outlandish and broken and like it doesn't make sense. But once it's been in your head awhile it's as if the other thoughts in there wriggle out of the way to give it some room. Michael Marshall Smith

The children eat and wriggle and laugh, The two old ladies stroke their silk; But the cat is grown small and thin with desire, Transformed to a creeping lust for milk. Harold Monro

Before the War you took your secretary to Paris and called her your wife. Now, in order to wriggle through the tax-gatherer's net, you take your wife to Paris and call her your secretary. Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft

The prisoner writhed in discomfort Source: Internet

The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace Source: Internet

A double-line zigzag means that the fingers wriggle or flutter out of sync. Source: Internet

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