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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)

  1. (ambitransitive) 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
  2. (ambitransitive) To make a squiggle.
  3. (ambitransitive) To write illegibly.

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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

  1. squiggley
  2. squigglier
  3. squigglies
  4. squiggliest
  5. squiggliness
  6. squiggling
  7. squiggly
  8. Squiggol
  9. squigs
  10. squigs out
  11. squilgee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: squiggling (page history and authors); squiggle (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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