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wiggle
English
Etymology
From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”).
Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?w???l/
- Rhymes: -???l
- Hyphenation: wig?gle
Verb
wiggle (third-person singular simple present wiggles, present participle wiggling, simple past and past participle wiggled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
- Her hips wiggle as she walks.
- The jelly wiggles on the plate when you move it.
Translations
Noun
wiggle (plural wiggles)
- A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
- She walked with a sexy wiggle.
- (figuratively) An alternating state or characteristic. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (in the plural) See wiggles.
Translations
Derived terms
References
wiggle From the web:
- what wiggles
- what wiggle died
- what wiggle killed himself
- what wiggle means
- what wiggles are dead
- what wiggles character am i
- what wiggles are married
- what wiggles in the grass
bounce
English
Etymology
From Middle English bunsen (“to beat, thump”), perhaps imitative. Compare Low German bunsen (“to beat”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb”), and akin to bonken (“to bang, smash”), and possibly English bang.
Pronunciation
- enPR: bouns, IPA(key): /ba?ns/
- Rhymes: -a?ns
Verb
bounce (third-person singular simple present bounces, present participle bouncing, simple past and past participle bounced)
- (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
- The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
- (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
- He bounces nervously on his chair.
- (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- He bounced the child on his knee.
- The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
- (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.
- I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
- (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- She bounced happily into the room.
- 1731, Jonathan Swift, On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out of the Council
- Out bounced the mastiff.
- To move rapidly (between).
- (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
- (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
- He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
- (intransitive, slang) To leave.
- Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
- (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
- 1946, Yachting (volume 80, page 46)
- Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
- 1946, Yachting (volume 80, page 46)
- (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
- The squadron was bounced north of the town.
- (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
- See if it helps to bounce the router.
- (intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
- What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
- The girl in the bar told me her address was [email protected], but my mail to that address bounced back to me.
- (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
- (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
- (transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
- (slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of J. Fletcher to this entry?)
- (slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
- (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
- 1708, John Partridge, Squire Bickerstaff Detected
Synonyms
- (change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): bounce back, rebound
- (move quickly up and down): bob
- (have sexual intercourse): bang, do it, have sex; see also Thesaurus:copulate
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
bounce (countable and uncountable, plural bounces)
- A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
- A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
- The sack, licensing.
- A bang, boom.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
- 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer
- (archaic) A drink based on brandyW.
- (archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- The bounce burst ope[sic] the door.
- 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover
- (archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)
- (Can we find and add a quotation of De Quincey to this entry?)
- Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
- A genre of New Orleans music.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Drugs.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) Swagger.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A 'good' beat.
- (slang, African-American Vernacular) A talent for leaping.
Synonyms
- (change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle): rebound
- (movement up and down): bob, bobbing (repeated), bouncing (repeated)
- (talent for leaping): ups, mad ups
Derived terms
- bouncy
- on the bounce
Translations
References
bounce From the web:
- what bounces
- what bounce for wedges
- what bounce for 60 degree wedge
- what bounce do pros use
- what bounce for 56 wedge
- what bounces back
- what bounce for lob wedge
- what bounce rate is good
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