different between joggle vs wriggle

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d????l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

joggle (third-person singular simple present joggles, present participle joggling, simple past and past participle joggled)

1. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle; to jog.
2. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
3. To jog or run while juggling.
4. (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely, to dowel.
   • 1842, Joseph Gwilt, Encyclopaedia of Architecture

     The struts of a roof are joggled into the truss posts.

Translations

Noun

joggle (plural joggles)

1. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
2. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.

English

Etymology

From wrig +? -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrig?n? (“to wriggle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?????l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Verb

wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)

1. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.

   Synonym: wiggle

   Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.

   • 1724, Jonathan Swift, Drapier's Letters, 5

     Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
2. (transitive) To cause something to wriggle.

   Synonym: wiggle

   He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.

3. (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.

Derived terms

• wriggler
• wriggly

Translations

Noun

wriggle (plural wriggles)

1. A wriggling movement.

Translations

Anagrams

• wiggler