noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act of one who wriggles.

   "The child's constant wrigglings made her difficult to hold."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of wriggle form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

movingsquirmywigglywrigglywrithing

Example

More examples

"The room was full of bugs, millions of small, wriggling bugs with lots of legs."

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.