jiggle
/ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/
jiggle noun: a relatively weak shaking movement; the condition or state of weakly shaking.
Noun
jiggle (plural jiggles)
- A relatively weak shaking movement; the condition or state of weakly shaking.
- Give the key a jiggle and see if it opens.
- Titillating depictions of scantily-clad female bodies in motion, especially in action media genres.
- […]Rollergirls, a situation comedy about an all-female roller derby team with a lecher- ous male manager. As the women, dressed in sports hot-pants, crashed into each other in the playing arena, the opportunities for jiggle were endless.1978, Year Book Covering the Year ...
- For all the talk that the show's success was based on "jiggle,” [Charlie's] Angels had a huge female viewership.2013 May 11, Cary O’Dell, June Cleaver Was a Feminist!: Reconsidering the Female Characters of Early Television, McFarland, →ISBN, page 148
Verb
jiggle (third-person singular simple present jiggles, present participle jiggling, simple past and past participle jiggled)
- To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
- Jiggle the handle and see if the water stops.
- And I hope we jiggled a few of his convictions.1980 February 16, Nancy Walker, “You Can Go Home Again”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 29, page 12
- To shake, rattle, or wiggle.
- The jelly jiggled in the bowl for a few moments after it was set down.
jiggle meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
jiggle in Tamil
- குதி
jiggle in Malayalam
- shake, joggle, waggle
- തുള്ളുക, തുള്ളിക്കുക, കുലുക്കുക, ഇളക്കുക, ഉലയ്ക്കുക, ഉലയിയ്ക്കുക
- fidget, wriggle, squirm
- തുള്ളുക, വപ്രാളം കാട്ടുക, വെകിളിപിടിച്ചു പ്രവർത്തിക്കുക, കുടുകുടുക്കുക, ഇളകുക, ഞെളിപിരികൊള്ളുക
jiggle in Kannada
- ಕುಣಿ, ಹಾರಾಡು
Examples of jiggle in a sentence
- Then you've got to jiggle it just right, if you know what I mean, before you can get it to come out of there.
- This game's in the refrigerator. The door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling!
- "Classic jiggle television," he explained as he cupped his hands to create a platform for her foot.
Forms of jiggle
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | jiggles |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | jiggles |
| present participle | jiggling |
| past participle | jiggled |
| past | jiggled |
Origin of jiggle
From jig + -le (frequentative suffix).
Words formed from jiggle
Phrases with jiggle
Words that rhyme with jiggle
Questions about jiggle
- What does jiggle mean?
- Jiggle means a relatively weak shaking movement; the condition or state of weakly shaking.
- What is jiggle in Tamil?
- Jiggle in Tamil is குதி. See Jiggle meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is jiggle?
- Jiggle can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce jiggle?
- Jiggle is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɪɡəl/.
- What is the plural of jiggle?
- The plural of jiggle is jiggles.
Words near jiggle in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: jiggle (page history and authors); jiggle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jiggle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); jiggle (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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