different between shudder vs wriggle

English

Etymology

From Middle English *shudderen, *schuderen (suggested by Middle English shuddering, schudering (“shaking, quivering, shuddering”)), from Middle Dutch schudderen and/or Middle Low German schodderen, iterative forms of the verb at hand in Dutch schudden, Low German schüdden (both “to shake”), German schütten (“to pour”), from Proto-Germanic *skudjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *skewd?-. From Low German are also borrowed German schaudern (“to shudder”), Danish skudre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d?/
• Homophone: shutter (accents with flapping)
• Rhymes: -?d?(?)
• Hyphenation: shud?der

Noun

shudder (plural shudders)

1. A shivering tremor, often from fear or horror.
2. A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

Synonyms

• (shivering tremor): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver
• (frisson): shiver (cold), quiver, tingle, thrill

Translations

Verb

shudder (third-person singular simple present shudders, present participle shuddering, simple past and past participle shuddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake nervously, often from fear or horror.
2. (intransitive) To vibrate jerkily.

Synonyms

• (shake nervously): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake
• (vibrate jerkily): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

Translations

See also

• judder

References

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