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wrig

/ɹɪɡ/

wrig verb: to wriggle.

Verb

wrig (third-person singular simple present wrigs, present participle wrigging, simple past and past participle wrigged)

  1. (obsolete) To wriggle.
    • Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles1846, Douglas William Jerrold, The History of St. Giles and St. James

Forms of wrig

third-person singular presentwrigs
present participlewrigging
past participlewrigged
pastwrigged

Origin of wrig

From Middle English wriggen. Cognate with Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), German Low German wriggen (“to shake, shudder, rotate”), Dutch wrikken and wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Middle English wrikken (“to move back and forth”). Compare also Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go, move”).

Words formed from wrig

Words that rhyme with wrig

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Questions about wrig

What does wrig mean?
Wrig means to wriggle.
What part of speech is wrig?
Wrig is a verb.
How do you pronounce wrig?
Wrig is pronounced /ɹɪɡ/.
What is the past tense of wrig?
The past tense of wrig is wrigged.

Words near wrig in the dictionary

  1. wrides
  2. wried
  3. wrier
  4. wries
  5. wriest
  6. wrig
  7. wrigged
  8. wrigging
  9. wriggle
  10. wriggle out of
  11. wriggle room

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