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scriggling

scriggling is the present participle and gerund of scriggle.

Meaning of scriggle

Verb

scriggle (third-person singular simple present scriggles, present participle scriggling, simple past and past participle scriggled)

  1. (UK, dialectal) To squirm, wriggle or squiggle.
  2. (rare) To scribble, jot.

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Questions about scriggling

What is scriggling the present participle and gerund of?
Scriggling is the present participle and gerund of scriggle.

Words near scriggling in the dictionary

  1. scrieves
  2. scrieving
  3. scriggle
  4. scriggled
  5. scriggles
  6. scriggling
  7. scriggly
  8. scrike
  9. scriked
  10. scrikes
  11. scriking

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Adapted from Wiktionary: scriggling (page history and authors); scriggle (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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