Wrig

//ɹɪɡ// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To wriggle. obsolete

    "Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles"

Example

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"Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles"

Etymology

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”).

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