wiggling
Meaning of wiggling
verb, gerund or present participle
- move or cause to move up and down or from side to side with small rapid movements.
Vi wiggled her toes
my tooth was wiggling about
Middle English: from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch wiggelen (frequentative).
Information about wiggling
- It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of wiggling
wig-gling
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- wiggling is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
wiggling synonyms
Meaning squirming:
squirming, twisting, wiggly, wriggling, wriggly, writhing
Meaning shake (something) lightly up and down or from side to side:
Meaning twist and turn with quick writhing movements:
Meaning give or cause to give a short, sudden jerking or convulsive movement:
Meaning (of a bird or other winged creature) fly unsteadily or hover by flapping the wings quickly and lightly:
Meaning dance the shimmy:
Meaning move or cause to move with repeated small bobs or jerks:
Meaning move (an upwards-pointing finger) from side to side to signify disapproval:
Meaning move or cause to move unsteadily from side to side:
Meaning (of a structure or area of land) tremble or vibrate:
Meaning move in a wriggling or writhing fashion:
Meaning wriggle or twist the body from side to side, especially as a result of nervousness or discomfort:
Meaning make twisting, squirming movements or contortions of the body:
Meaning move one's hand to and fro in greeting or as a signal:
Meaning tremble or shake with a slight rapid motion:
Meaning move or cause to move with a jerk:
Meaning a small ball made of strands of wool used as a decoration on a hat or on furnishings:
Meaning move or cause to move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down:
Words that rhyme with wiggling
Ling, Coaling, Ealing, annealing, antiwhaling, appealing, autodialing, avaling, backpedaling, baling, bealing, berascaling, canaling, capitaling, charcoaling, coaling, concealing, congealing, countersealing, craaling, credentialing, crystaling, dealing, descaling, dialing, downscaling, embaling, empaling, ensealing, equaling, exhaling, fealing, foaling, forepaling, gealing, gimbaling, goaling, haling, healing, impaling, inhaling, initialing, instealing, interdealing, intervaling, journaling, keelhaling, kraaling, lateraling, localing
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