different between shiver vs wriggle
shiver
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???v?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???v?/
- Rhymes: -?v?(?)
Etymology 1
Origin uncertain, perhaps an alteration of chavel.
Verb
shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)
- To tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened.
- 1693, Thomas Creech, The thirteenth Satire of Juvenal
- The man that shivered on the brink of sin, / Thus steeled and hardened, ventures boldly in.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red. The footman who brought the coal, in going out, stopped near Mr. Eshton's chair, and said something to him in a low voice, of which I heard only the words, "old woman,"—"quite troublesome."
- 1922, Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
- He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.
- 1693, Thomas Creech, The thirteenth Satire of Juvenal
- (nautical, transitive) To cause to shake or tremble, as a sail, by steering close to the wind.
Derived terms
- ashiver
- shiverer
- shiver my timbers
- shivering owl
Translations
Noun
shiver (plural shivers)
- The act of shivering.
- But they had already discovered that he could be bullied, and they had it their own way; and presently Selwyn lay prone upon the nursery floor, impersonating a ladrone while pleasant shivers chased themselves over Drina, whom he was stalking.
- (medicine) A bodily response to early hypothermia.Wp
Translations
Derived terms
- send shivers down someone's spine
- shiver my timbers
See also
- frisson
Etymology 2
From a Germanic word, probably present in Old English though unattested, cognate with Old High German scivaro (German Schiefer (“slate”)).
Noun
shiver (plural shivers)
- A fragment or splinter, especially of glass or stone.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A thin slice; a shive.
- a shiver of their own loaf
- (geology) A variety of blue slate.
- (nautical) A sheave or small wheel in a pulley.
- A small wedge, as for fastening the bolt of a window shutter.
- (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A spindle.
Translations
Verb
shiver (third-person singular simple present shivers, present participle shivering, simple past and past participle shivered)
- To break into splinters or fragments.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 24
- But if, in the face of all this, you still declare that whaling has no aesthetically noble associations connected with it, then am I ready to shiver fifty lances with you there, and unhorse you with a split helmet every time.
- 1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Six Napoleons, Norton (2005), page 1034:
- he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
- 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 183:
- A whole series of fault lines radiated away from this Lisbon earthquake, all of them shivering the structures of traditional order.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 24
Etymology 3
Origin uncertain
Noun
shiver (plural shivers)
- Collective noun for a group of sharks
Anagrams
- hivers, shrive
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wriggle
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)
- (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.
- (transitive) To cause something to wriggle.
- Synonym: wiggle
- He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
- (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.
Derived terms
- wriggler
- wriggly
Translations
Noun
wriggle (plural wriggles)
- A wriggling movement.
Translations
Anagrams
- wiggler
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