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wiggle
[ wig-uhl ]
verb (used without object)
- to move or go with short, quick, irregular movements from side to side:
The puppies wiggled with delight.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to wiggle; move quickly and irregularly from side to side.
noun
- a wiggling movement or course.
- a wiggly line.
- a dish of creamed fish or shellfish and peas.
wiggle
/ ˈɪɡə /
verb
- to move or cause to move with jerky movements, esp from side to side
noun
- the act or an instance of wiggling
- get a wiggle on slang.to hurry up
Derived Forms
- ˈɾ, noun
- ˈɾ, adjective
Other 51Թ Forms
- dzܳwg verb (used with object) outwiggled outwiggling
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wiggle1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of wiggle1
Idioms and Phrases
- get a wiggle on, Informal. to hurry up; get a move on:
If you don't get a wiggle on, we'll miss the first act.
Example Sentences
Jeanne Husing, 84, said she has wiggle room in her budget with outside income in addition to her Social Security payments, but she worries for families that don’t have as much flexibility.
Low economic growth and higher borrowing costs have eroded the small amount of wiggle room the chancellor left herself to meet these rules in October's budget.
When Noland awoke from the surgery which installed the device, he said he was initially able to control a cursor on a screen by thinking about wiggling his fingers.
But whether everyday costs allow those renters enough wiggle room to build up alternative streams of equity is another question.
Trump did give himself some wiggle room by challenging Arab states to come up with their own plan for postwar Gaza.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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