WRIGGLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wriggling mean? 

• WRIGGLING (adjective)
  The adjective WRIGGLING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WRIGGLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRIGGLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

Synonyms:

wiggly; wriggling; wriggly; writhing

Context example:

wiggly worms

Similar:

moving (in motion)

 Context examples 

“I'm Ben Gunn, I am,” replied the maroon, wriggling like an eel in his embarrassment.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Wilson and eight others were wriggling on the top of each other on the floor, and the blood and the brown sherry on that table turn me sick now when I think of it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The man peered doubtfully into the basket, plunged in his hand and drew one up, wriggling, by the back of the neck.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)