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wriggles

wriggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wriggle.

wriggles is the plural of wriggle.

Meaning of wriggle

Verb

wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)

  1. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
    • Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
    Synonyms:
    wiggle
  2. (transitive) To cause something to wriggle.
    • He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
    Synonyms:
    wiggle
  3. (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means.

See all 4 meanings of wriggle

Phrases with wriggles

Questions about wriggles

What is wriggles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wriggles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wriggle.

Words near wriggles in the dictionary

  1. wriggle room
  2. wriggled
  3. wriggled out of
  4. wriggler
  5. wrigglers
  6. wriggles
  7. wriggles out of
  8. wrigglesome
  9. Wrigglesworth
  10. Wrigglesworths
  11. wrigglier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wriggles (page history and authors); wriggle (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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