Wraggle
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To wag about with a wiggling motion.
"I going, he followed, and following fingered me, just as your worship does now; but I struggled and straggled, and wriggled and wraggled, and at last cried vale, valete, as I do now, with this fragment Of a rhyme,"
- 2 To noisily try to convince others.
""The crisis of Olympia's destiny will come and pass," Stevens fretted, "and the die be cast against her while her people are wraggling over... 'bonds.'""
- 3 To pester.
"They represent the first record of Fur Seals in this area and it is intented that meteorological and hydrological conditions in the Tasman Sea during austral winter have wraggled to the north young Fur Seals from probably south-australian populations."
Example
More examples"I going, he followed, and following fingered me, just as your worship does now; but I struggled and straggled, and wriggled and wraggled, and at last cried vale, valete, as I do now, with this fragment Of a rhyme,"
Etymology
Blend of wriggle + waggle.
Blend of wrangle + haggle.
More for "wraggle"
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.