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wiggle

Syllables: wig·gle/ˈwɪɡəl/

wiggle verb: to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.

Verb

wiggle (third-person singular simple present wiggles, present participle wiggling, simple past and past participle wiggled)

  1. (ambitransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.
    • Her hips wiggle as she walks.
    • The jelly wiggles on the plate when you move it.
  2. (intransitive) To move with shaking or jiggling.
    • She wiggled out through the small opening in the wall.

Noun

wiggle (plural wiggles)

  1. A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
    • She walked with a sexy wiggle.
    Synonyms:
    jiggle
  2. A dish that combines seafood and peas in a cream-based sauce.
    • shrimp wiggle
  3. (figuratively) An alternating state or characteristic.
  4. (in plural) See wiggles.

wiggle meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada

wiggle in Tamil

ஆட்டு

wiggle in Urdu

تیڑھی میڑی لکیر, جھپک جھپک کر چلنا

wiggle in Malayalam

wriggle, jiggle, twitch
വശങ്ങളിലേക്ക് ആട്ടുക, വശങ്ങളിലേക്ക് ആടുക, ആട്ടുക, ആടുക, തുള്ളുക, ഇളകി ആടുക

wiggle in Kannada

ಅಲುಗಾಡಿಸು

Examples of wiggle in a sentence

  • I'll make ya bump, hump, wiggle and shake your rump1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:
  • "They don't do nothing but teach the kids how to bump n wiggle."2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 788:

All 26 example sentences with wiggle

Synonyms of wiggle

Forms of wiggle

Verb
third-person singular presentwiggles
present participlewiggling
past participlewiggled
pastwiggled
Noun
pluralwiggles

Past tense of wiggle: wiggled

Plural of wiggle: wiggles

Origin of wiggle

From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen (“to wiggle”) and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen (“to rock”), from wiege (“cradle”). See wain, and Dutch wieg (“cradle”). Cognate to Dutch wiggelen (“to wiggle”), Low German wiggeln (“to wiggle”).

Words formed from wiggle

Phrases with wiggle

Words that rhyme with wiggle

Questions about wiggle

What does wiggle mean?
Wiggle means to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle.
What is wiggle in Tamil?
Wiggle in Tamil is ஆட்டு. See Wiggle meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wiggle in a sentence?
I'll make ya bump, hump, wiggle and shake your rump
What part of speech is wiggle?
Wiggle can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce wiggle?
Wiggle is pronounced /ˈwɪɡəl/.
What is the past tense of wiggle?
The past tense of wiggle is wiggled.

Words near wiggle in the dictionary

  1. wiggins
  2. Wigginton
  3. Wiggintons
  4. wiggish
  5. wiggishness
  6. wiggle
  7. wiggle dress
  8. wiggle dresses
  9. wiggle out of
  10. wiggle room
  11. wiggle seat

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wiggle (page history and authors); wiggle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wiggle (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); wiggle (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); wiggle (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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