squiggling
squiggling is the present participle and gerund of squiggle.
Meaning of squiggle
Verb
squiggle (third-person singular simple present squiggles, present participle squiggling, simple past and past participle squiggled)
- To wriggle or squirm.
- When I was coming of age in the '60s, I squirmed and squiggled not to be pinned down by that great transfixer "the homosexual" which American psychiatry had made into such a weighty implement.1980 August 30, Tim Walton, “Queer Rights Strategy Argued in Quirky Dictionary”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 9
- To make a squiggle.
- To write illegibly.
Questions about squiggling
- What is squiggling the present participle and gerund of?
- Squiggling is the present participle and gerund of squiggle.
Words near squiggling in the dictionary
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