Writhy

Nor fly, nor insect, nor writhy snake, escape their deep research.

When we caught a writhy, stunted fish, wide-eyed, mouthing silence, which slipped out of our hands, we picked it up, threw it back to its mud-blind home.

Maud's dances were termed “wiggly, writhy, squirmy”—rendering them more reptilian than artistic in tone.