different between wriggle vs squirmy
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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squirmy
English
Etymology
squirm +? -y
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?skw?mi/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?skw??mi/
Adjective
squirmy (comparative squirmier or more squirmy, superlative squirmiest or most squirmy)
- That squirms, writhes or wriggles
Derived terms
- squirminess
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