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wrigging

wrigging is the present participle and gerund of wrig.

Meaning of wrig

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

Questions about wrigging

What is wrigging the present participle and gerund of?
Wrigging is the present participle and gerund of wrig.

Words near wrigging in the dictionary

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

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