EGAVE

wiggle

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. verb To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.
    Her hips wiggle as she walks.
  2. verb To move with shaking or jiggling.
    She wiggled out through the small opening in the wall.
  3. noun A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
    She walked with a sexy wiggle.
  4. noun A dish that combines seafood and peas in a cream-based sauce.
    shrimp wiggle
  5. noun An alternating state or characteristic. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  6. noun See wiggles.

Similar words

wriggle jiggle squirm joggle waggle shake stir move budge twitch

Often followed by

room your the out and his my in of

Word family

wiggled wiggles wigglier wiggliest wiggling wiggly

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