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Word entry · 7 letters

wriggle

Best crossword clue

"Squirm"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈɹɪɡəl/Part of speech noun, verbSorted eggilrwStarts with WEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. the act of wiggling

Word origin

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 *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).

Used in a sentence

  • Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
  • Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
  • I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.

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