Definition of wriggle in English:

wriggle

verb ˈrɪɡ(ə)lˈrɪɡəl

1Twist and turn with quick writhing movements.
扭动；蠕动
no object the puppy wriggled in his arms
with object she wriggled her bare, brown toes
她扭动她那棕褐色的光脚指头。
Example sentencesExamples
- Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away.
- The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily.
- I'd have to gingerly scoop up the worm (still wriggling, for he didn't kill them) and I'd throw it out the front door onto the little patch of lawn there.
- They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly.
- Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed.
- We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope.
- Sioni kicked and wriggled, but couldn't break free, much to other two's amusement.
- A little later, on the green, Dawa is carefully trying to remove a worm that's wriggling in his line.
- Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose.
- She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
- Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
- I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
- Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away.
- Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film.
- Rowena had been scratching the puppy's tummy; she looked up at Terese but wasn't aware she had stopped moving until the puppy began to wriggle impatiently.
- She switched him back to the stroller, and a strange thing happened… Zack would writhe around in the stroller, wriggling and crying, until his mother picked him up.
- The twins kicked and wriggled under his arms but couldn't get out of his powerful hold.
- She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook.
- They had sliced the worm in two and the worm was still wriggling.
- She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time.
Synonyms
squirm, writhe, wiggle, jiggle, jerk, thresh, flounder, flail, twitch, turn, twist, twist and turn, zigzag
snake, worm, slither, slink, crawl, creep
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a particular direction with wriggling movements.
  蜿蜒行进，朝…扭动
  Susie wriggled out of her clothes
  苏茜身子一扭一扭地脱掉了衣服。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Steven Seymour came off the wing when he spotted the ball working free and with great determination he managed to wriggle and twist his way over for the score.
  As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles.
  She tried to wriggle away without waking him but she could barely move.
  Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg.
  Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
  The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf.
  All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home.
  I moved my whole body, trying to wriggle myself away from him.
  She glances at the window which, as it was for Wendy, is too small to wriggle out of.
  Someone latched onto him but he wriggled away, his eyes directly on Gabrielle Potter.
  It snaked down and wriggled about, looking for a good avenue down to the ground but, thankfully, it failed to do so.
  Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa.
  Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting.
  With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail.
  She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally.
  A serpent-sized worm wriggled by between our legs.
  The burglar then managed to escape by wriggling out of his hooded tracksuit top, before dumping his loot and running off.
  Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again.
  It was twisting and turning, wriggling about like a snake.
  She reached the rocks and wriggled through them, moving her feet gently through the water.
2wriggle out ofno object Avoid (something) by devious means.
（耍手段或施诡计以）摆脱
don't try and wriggle out of your contract
别想耍诡计摆脱你的合约。
Example sentencesExamples
- Laser cardholders will be able to wriggle out of paying the annual €20 stamp duty on their cards from next year, thanks to a loophole in new rules governing the controversial tax.
- If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of.
- It cited an agreement that the bosses want to wriggle out of.
- He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.
- ‘They knew we had won but they wriggled out of paying us because we had not reported our ticket as lost within 30 days of the draw,’ she said.
- Not only are investors trying to sell what they own, they're hoping to wriggle out of what they still owe.
- The whisky industry, which last week was trying to wriggle out of new environmental regulations on water, has been outed as a major source of water pollution.
- How he wriggles out of that situation forms the rest of the story.
- And the more strict the regulation, the easier it is for banks to wriggle out of responsibilities by insisting that they have ‘followed the rules’.
- The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation.
- I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins.
- To cut a long story short, this bill is introducing these rules to stop the banks from avoiding and wriggling out of their taxes.
- However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control.
- He knows he can wriggle out of making a decision by speaking on the record before hearing the full evidence at the committee, thus ‘preventing’ him taking part in proceedings.
- The cost is now £50 and unlike parking tickets there are hardly any extenuating circumstances that can be used to wriggle out of the payment.
- ‘You are not going to wriggle out of the contract,’ says Manners.
- He said that, in his opinion, Mrs Stansfield's counter-claim was a ‘sham’ because she constantly tried to wriggle out of the contract and avoid blame for the shop's closure.
- Deacon wriggled out of having to make a decision by setting up a group with very limited powers.
- He knows he's in a bit of a tight situation, but this is a guy who has wriggled out of one tight situation after another for 34 years, and he seems quite confident that he can do it again.
- Nothing has changed and our party will certainly be opposing any attempts at wriggling out of their duties.
Synonyms
avoid, shirk, dodge, evade, elude, sidestep, circumvent, eschew
hide from, escape from, extricate oneself from, steer clear of
informal duck
archaic bilk

noun ˈrɪɡ(ə)lˈrɪɡəl

A wriggling movement.
扭动；蠕动
she gave an impatient little wriggle
她不耐烦地稍微扭动了一下。
Example sentencesExamples
- She gave a little wriggle of her shoulders, looking uncomfortable.
- Below him, Eric made a convulsive wriggle to get his legs around the bottom of the pipe.
- She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him.
- My mother's cat, so long terrified by my very presence, appears to be getting used to me, and now does an impressive, fawning wriggle at my feet every time I pass.
- Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze.
- The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent.
- Sea creatures appear lashed by an ocean spray of brilliant white diamonds; the twisting form of an iguana brooch insinuates the darting wriggle of the animal's movements.
- With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear.
- He tried to move again but all he could manage was a wriggle under the blankets.
- Alas, three minutes later the fish does a wriggle down deep and the hook comes free.
- He was not gagged, which was a blessing, but the rope was tied tight and limited any movement to a caterpillar-like wriggle.
- They do so with minimal effort, with an occasional wriggle of a flank and a sideways motion of a tail.
Synonyms
squirm, jiggle, wiggle, jerk, twist, turn

Derivatives

wriggly

adjectivewrigglier, wriggliest ˈrɪɡ(ə)liˈrɪɡ(ə)li

It's a very wriggly baby… it was playing with its fingers and toes while we were watching, and opening/closing its mouth.
Example sentencesExamples
- When Smolen put his hand in the bag he found only a wriggly snake.
- Each molecule is a bit like a tadpole: a large head, with a long, wriggly tail.
- We're like a big burlap sack full of kittens, all wriggly and cuddly and helpless.
- I watched one that had caught a particularly large and wriggly earthworm but couldn't manage to eat it.

Origin

Late 15th century: from Middle Low German wriggelen, frequentative of wriggen 'twist, turn'.

Rhymes

giggle, higgle, jiggle, niggle, sniggle, squiggle, wiggle

Definition of wriggle in US English:

wriggle

verbˈriɡəlˈrɪɡəl

1Twist and turn with quick writhing movements.
扭动；蠕动
no object the puppy wriggled in his arms
with object she wriggled her bare, brown toes
她扭动她那棕褐色的光脚指头。
Example sentencesExamples
- Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away.
- They had sliced the worm in two and the worm was still wriggling.
- Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film.
- Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed.
- She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her.
- The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily.
- We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope.
- Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away.
- The twins kicked and wriggled under his arms but couldn't get out of his powerful hold.
- They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly.
- A little later, on the green, Dawa is carefully trying to remove a worm that's wriggling in his line.
- She switched him back to the stroller, and a strange thing happened… Zack would writhe around in the stroller, wriggling and crying, until his mother picked him up.
- Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled.
- She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time.
- I'd have to gingerly scoop up the worm (still wriggling, for he didn't kill them) and I'd throw it out the front door onto the little patch of lawn there.
- Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose.
- I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time.
- Sioni kicked and wriggled, but couldn't break free, much to other two's amusement.
- She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook.
- Rowena had been scratching the puppy's tummy; she looked up at Terese but wasn't aware she had stopped moving until the puppy began to wriggle impatiently.
Synonyms
squirm, writhe, wiggle, jiggle, jerk, thresh, flounder, flail, twitch, turn, twist, twist and turn, zigzag
1. 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a particular direction with wriggling movements.
  蜿蜒行进，朝…扭动
  Susie wriggled out of her clothes
  苏茜身子一扭一扭地脱掉了衣服。
  Example sentencesExamples
  It snaked down and wriggled about, looking for a good avenue down to the ground but, thankfully, it failed to do so.
  A serpent-sized worm wriggled by between our legs.
  All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home.
  She tried to wriggle away without waking him but she could barely move.
  Someone latched onto him but he wriggled away, his eyes directly on Gabrielle Potter.
  Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting.
  It was twisting and turning, wriggling about like a snake.
  Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa.
  Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders.
  With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail.
  Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg.
  As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles.
  I moved my whole body, trying to wriggle myself away from him.
  Steven Seymour came off the wing when he spotted the ball working free and with great determination he managed to wriggle and twist his way over for the score.
  She glances at the window which, as it was for Wendy, is too small to wriggle out of.
  She reached the rocks and wriggled through them, moving her feet gently through the water.
  The burglar then managed to escape by wriggling out of his hooded tracksuit top, before dumping his loot and running off.
  She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally.
  The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf.
  Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again.
2wriggle out ofno object Avoid (something) by devious means.
（耍手段或施诡计以）摆脱
don't try and wriggle out of your contract
别想耍诡计摆脱你的合约。
Example sentencesExamples
- How he wriggles out of that situation forms the rest of the story.
- To cut a long story short, this bill is introducing these rules to stop the banks from avoiding and wriggling out of their taxes.
- However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control.
- ‘They knew we had won but they wriggled out of paying us because we had not reported our ticket as lost within 30 days of the draw,’ she said.
- He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option.
- I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins.
- If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of.
- Laser cardholders will be able to wriggle out of paying the annual €20 stamp duty on their cards from next year, thanks to a loophole in new rules governing the controversial tax.
- Nothing has changed and our party will certainly be opposing any attempts at wriggling out of their duties.
- Not only are investors trying to sell what they own, they're hoping to wriggle out of what they still owe.
- The cost is now £50 and unlike parking tickets there are hardly any extenuating circumstances that can be used to wriggle out of the payment.
- And the more strict the regulation, the easier it is for banks to wriggle out of responsibilities by insisting that they have ‘followed the rules’.
- He said that, in his opinion, Mrs Stansfield's counter-claim was a ‘sham’ because she constantly tried to wriggle out of the contract and avoid blame for the shop's closure.
- The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation.
- ‘You are not going to wriggle out of the contract,’ says Manners.
- It cited an agreement that the bosses want to wriggle out of.
- Deacon wriggled out of having to make a decision by setting up a group with very limited powers.
- He knows he can wriggle out of making a decision by speaking on the record before hearing the full evidence at the committee, thus ‘preventing’ him taking part in proceedings.
- He knows he's in a bit of a tight situation, but this is a guy who has wriggled out of one tight situation after another for 34 years, and he seems quite confident that he can do it again.
- The whisky industry, which last week was trying to wriggle out of new environmental regulations on water, has been outed as a major source of water pollution.
Synonyms
avoid, shirk, dodge, evade, elude, sidestep, circumvent, eschew

nounˈriɡəlˈrɪɡəl

A wriggling movement.
扭动；蠕动
she gave an impatient little wriggle
她不耐烦地稍微扭动了一下。
Example sentencesExamples
- She gave a little wriggle of her shoulders, looking uncomfortable.
- With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear.
- They do so with minimal effort, with an occasional wriggle of a flank and a sideways motion of a tail.
- The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent.
- Below him, Eric made a convulsive wriggle to get his legs around the bottom of the pipe.
- My mother's cat, so long terrified by my very presence, appears to be getting used to me, and now does an impressive, fawning wriggle at my feet every time I pass.
- Alas, three minutes later the fish does a wriggle down deep and the hook comes free.
- He tried to move again but all he could manage was a wriggle under the blankets.
- Sea creatures appear lashed by an ocean spray of brilliant white diamonds; the twisting form of an iguana brooch insinuates the darting wriggle of the animal's movements.
- Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze.
- He was not gagged, which was a blessing, but the rope was tied tight and limited any movement to a caterpillar-like wriggle.
- She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him.
Synonyms
squirm, jiggle, wiggle, jerk, twist, turn

Origin

Late 15th century: from Middle Low German wriggelen, frequentative of wriggen ‘twist, turn’.

单词	wriggle
释义	Definition of wriggle in English: wriggle verb ˈrɪɡ(ə)lˈrɪɡəl 1Twist and turn with quick writhing movements. 扭动；蠕动 no object the puppy wriggled in his arms with object she wriggled her bare, brown toes 她扭动她那棕褐色的光脚指头。 Example sentencesExamples Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away. The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily. I'd have to gingerly scoop up the worm (still wriggling, for he didn't kill them) and I'd throw it out the front door onto the little patch of lawn there. They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly. Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed. We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope. Sioni kicked and wriggled, but couldn't break free, much to other two's amusement. A little later, on the green, Dawa is carefully trying to remove a worm that's wriggling in his line. Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose. She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her. Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled. I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time. Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away. Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film. Rowena had been scratching the puppy's tummy; she looked up at Terese but wasn't aware she had stopped moving until the puppy began to wriggle impatiently. She switched him back to the stroller, and a strange thing happened… Zack would writhe around in the stroller, wriggling and crying, until his mother picked him up. The twins kicked and wriggled under his arms but couldn't get out of his powerful hold. She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook. They had sliced the worm in two and the worm was still wriggling. She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time. Synonyms squirm, writhe, wiggle, jiggle, jerk, thresh, flounder, flail, twitch, turn, twist, twist and turn, zigzag snake, worm, slither, slink, crawl, creep 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a particular direction with wriggling movements. 蜿蜒行进，朝…扭动 Susie wriggled out of her clothes 苏茜身子一扭一扭地脱掉了衣服。 Example sentencesExamples Steven Seymour came off the wing when he spotted the ball working free and with great determination he managed to wriggle and twist his way over for the score. As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles. She tried to wriggle away without waking him but she could barely move. Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg. Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf. All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home. I moved my whole body, trying to wriggle myself away from him. She glances at the window which, as it was for Wendy, is too small to wriggle out of. Someone latched onto him but he wriggled away, his eyes directly on Gabrielle Potter. It snaked down and wriggled about, looking for a good avenue down to the ground but, thankfully, it failed to do so. Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa. Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting. With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail. She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally. A serpent-sized worm wriggled by between our legs. The burglar then managed to escape by wriggling out of his hooded tracksuit top, before dumping his loot and running off. Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again. It was twisting and turning, wriggling about like a snake. She reached the rocks and wriggled through them, moving her feet gently through the water. 2wriggle out ofno object Avoid (something) by devious means. （耍手段或施诡计以）摆脱 don't try and wriggle out of your contract 别想耍诡计摆脱你的合约。 Example sentencesExamples Laser cardholders will be able to wriggle out of paying the annual €20 stamp duty on their cards from next year, thanks to a loophole in new rules governing the controversial tax. If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of. It cited an agreement that the bosses want to wriggle out of. He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option. ‘They knew we had won but they wriggled out of paying us because we had not reported our ticket as lost within 30 days of the draw,’ she said. Not only are investors trying to sell what they own, they're hoping to wriggle out of what they still owe. The whisky industry, which last week was trying to wriggle out of new environmental regulations on water, has been outed as a major source of water pollution. How he wriggles out of that situation forms the rest of the story. And the more strict the regulation, the easier it is for banks to wriggle out of responsibilities by insisting that they have ‘followed the rules’. The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation. I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins. To cut a long story short, this bill is introducing these rules to stop the banks from avoiding and wriggling out of their taxes. However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control. He knows he can wriggle out of making a decision by speaking on the record before hearing the full evidence at the committee, thus ‘preventing’ him taking part in proceedings. The cost is now £50 and unlike parking tickets there are hardly any extenuating circumstances that can be used to wriggle out of the payment. ‘You are not going to wriggle out of the contract,’ says Manners. He said that, in his opinion, Mrs Stansfield's counter-claim was a ‘sham’ because she constantly tried to wriggle out of the contract and avoid blame for the shop's closure. Deacon wriggled out of having to make a decision by setting up a group with very limited powers. He knows he's in a bit of a tight situation, but this is a guy who has wriggled out of one tight situation after another for 34 years, and he seems quite confident that he can do it again. Nothing has changed and our party will certainly be opposing any attempts at wriggling out of their duties. Synonyms avoid, shirk, dodge, evade, elude, sidestep, circumvent, eschew hide from, escape from, extricate oneself from, steer clear of informal duck archaic bilk noun ˈrɪɡ(ə)lˈrɪɡəl A wriggling movement. 扭动；蠕动 she gave an impatient little wriggle 她不耐烦地稍微扭动了一下。 Example sentencesExamples She gave a little wriggle of her shoulders, looking uncomfortable. Below him, Eric made a convulsive wriggle to get his legs around the bottom of the pipe. She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him. My mother's cat, so long terrified by my very presence, appears to be getting used to me, and now does an impressive, fawning wriggle at my feet every time I pass. Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze. The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent. Sea creatures appear lashed by an ocean spray of brilliant white diamonds; the twisting form of an iguana brooch insinuates the darting wriggle of the animal's movements. With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear. He tried to move again but all he could manage was a wriggle under the blankets. Alas, three minutes later the fish does a wriggle down deep and the hook comes free. He was not gagged, which was a blessing, but the rope was tied tight and limited any movement to a caterpillar-like wriggle. They do so with minimal effort, with an occasional wriggle of a flank and a sideways motion of a tail. Synonyms squirm, jiggle, wiggle, jerk, twist, turn Derivatives wriggly adjectivewrigglier, wriggliest ˈrɪɡ(ə)liˈrɪɡ(ə)li It's a very wriggly baby… it was playing with its fingers and toes while we were watching, and opening/closing its mouth. Example sentencesExamples When Smolen put his hand in the bag he found only a wriggly snake. Each molecule is a bit like a tadpole: a large head, with a long, wriggly tail. We're like a big burlap sack full of kittens, all wriggly and cuddly and helpless. I watched one that had caught a particularly large and wriggly earthworm but couldn't manage to eat it. Origin Late 15th century: from Middle Low German wriggelen, frequentative of wriggen 'twist, turn'. Rhymes giggle, higgle, jiggle, niggle, sniggle, squiggle, wiggle Definition of wriggle in US English: wriggle verbˈriɡəlˈrɪɡəl 1Twist and turn with quick writhing movements. 扭动；蠕动 no object the puppy wriggled in his arms with object she wriggled her bare, brown toes 她扭动她那棕褐色的光脚指头。 Example sentencesExamples Ivory screamed as she wriggled and twisted, trying in vain to get away. They had sliced the worm in two and the worm was still wriggling. Difficult to describe, the film contains a host of shifting shapes, such as dots and circles that wriggle and twist, as well as a recurring totem figure that is the most concrete element of the film. Local ghillie David Dinsmore took a small party of Scouts to Addergoole river last Saturday, where all were surprised by the variety of tiny fish life that crawl, swim or wriggle on the river bed. She squirmed, writhed, and wriggled, trying to evade the grip of those carrying her. The baby wriggled, all limbs kicking and waving happily. We peer down at the tiny worm wriggling under the lens of our microscope. Minutes later, she started to struggle again, pushing and pulling her arm, twisting and wriggling to try to get away. The twins kicked and wriggled under his arms but couldn't get out of his powerful hold. They dropped to the floor and began twitching and wriggling slightly. A little later, on the green, Dawa is carefully trying to remove a worm that's wriggling in his line. She switched him back to the stroller, and a strange thing happened… Zack would writhe around in the stroller, wriggling and crying, until his mother picked him up. Particularly ‘ticklish’ individuals wriggle and writhe in apparent agony, as well as laughing hysterically, when being tickled. She's wriggling and twisting on the bed all the time. I'd have to gingerly scoop up the worm (still wriggling, for he didn't kill them) and I'd throw it out the front door onto the little patch of lawn there. Sure enough, Fishy tugged the rod back and clicked the button and a shiny fish wriggled directly in front of Lazarus' nose. I could hardly keep still, squirming and wriggling all the time. Sioni kicked and wriggled, but couldn't break free, much to other two's amusement. She squirmed above him, wriggling like a fish on a hook. Rowena had been scratching the puppy's tummy; she looked up at Terese but wasn't aware she had stopped moving until the puppy began to wriggle impatiently. Synonyms squirm, writhe, wiggle, jiggle, jerk, thresh, flounder, flail, twitch, turn, twist, twist and turn, zigzag 1.1no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a particular direction with wriggling movements. 蜿蜒行进，朝…扭动 Susie wriggled out of her clothes 苏茜身子一扭一扭地脱掉了衣服。 Example sentencesExamples It snaked down and wriggled about, looking for a good avenue down to the ground but, thankfully, it failed to do so. A serpent-sized worm wriggled by between our legs. All the students took great pleasure in watching the worms wriggle around and begin to settle into their new home. She tried to wriggle away without waking him but she could barely move. Someone latched onto him but he wriggled away, his eyes directly on Gabrielle Potter. Once when I was in the bath, I saw a very prettily patterned green snake come wriggling through a gap between the wooden window frame and the mosquito netting. It was twisting and turning, wriggling about like a snake. Poised on the edge of her seat, a wriggle backwards would put Ahern's tiny frame in danger of being swallowed by the sumptuously plush green sofa. Houdini exerted a preternatural control over his body, wriggling out of straitjackets by dislocating his shoulders. With a brief, feeble attempt she tried to wriggle out of what bound her wrists, but to no avail. Bare branches grow out of one end, while shoots sprout out from the other, smiling snakes wriggle around and a baby bird emerges from an egg. As curly-locked James clung 20-ft from the ground he had no idea of the commotion he had caused by wriggling out of a roof window at his Windermere home on to the roof tiles. I moved my whole body, trying to wriggle myself away from him. Steven Seymour came off the wing when he spotted the ball working free and with great determination he managed to wriggle and twist his way over for the score. She glances at the window which, as it was for Wendy, is too small to wriggle out of. She reached the rocks and wriggled through them, moving her feet gently through the water. The burglar then managed to escape by wriggling out of his hooded tracksuit top, before dumping his loot and running off. She tried to wriggle and twist around, but could only move fractionally. The story goes that a wolf crossed the path of Domenico and, as it was about to sink its teeth into him, a snake wriggled up and sank its fangs into the wolf. Once those worms start wriggling from the can, it's a tricky job getting the lid jammed on again. 2wriggle out ofno object Avoid (something) by devious means. （耍手段或施诡计以）摆脱 don't try and wriggle out of your contract 别想耍诡计摆脱你的合约。 Example sentencesExamples How he wriggles out of that situation forms the rest of the story. To cut a long story short, this bill is introducing these rules to stop the banks from avoiding and wriggling out of their taxes. However, airlines can still wriggle out of paying up if the flights were cancelled due to circumstances outside their control. ‘They knew we had won but they wriggled out of paying us because we had not reported our ticket as lost within 30 days of the draw,’ she said. He has developed a gift for wriggling out of controversies by seizing the initiative and creating a third option. I let them down gently, first wriggling out of my board duties (in which I never held a great deal of interest anyway), and then letting go of the technical reins. If you get a jury notice, treat it as a responsibility rather than something to wriggle out of. Laser cardholders will be able to wriggle out of paying the annual €20 stamp duty on their cards from next year, thanks to a loophole in new rules governing the controversial tax. Nothing has changed and our party will certainly be opposing any attempts at wriggling out of their duties. Not only are investors trying to sell what they own, they're hoping to wriggle out of what they still owe. The cost is now £50 and unlike parking tickets there are hardly any extenuating circumstances that can be used to wriggle out of the payment. And the more strict the regulation, the easier it is for banks to wriggle out of responsibilities by insisting that they have ‘followed the rules’. He said that, in his opinion, Mrs Stansfield's counter-claim was a ‘sham’ because she constantly tried to wriggle out of the contract and avoid blame for the shop's closure. The subject of an aggressive international manhunt, the young man finds immense reserves of physical and combative abilities to wriggle out of any situation. ‘You are not going to wriggle out of the contract,’ says Manners. It cited an agreement that the bosses want to wriggle out of. Deacon wriggled out of having to make a decision by setting up a group with very limited powers. He knows he can wriggle out of making a decision by speaking on the record before hearing the full evidence at the committee, thus ‘preventing’ him taking part in proceedings. He knows he's in a bit of a tight situation, but this is a guy who has wriggled out of one tight situation after another for 34 years, and he seems quite confident that he can do it again. The whisky industry, which last week was trying to wriggle out of new environmental regulations on water, has been outed as a major source of water pollution. Synonyms avoid, shirk, dodge, evade, elude, sidestep, circumvent, eschew nounˈriɡəlˈrɪɡəl A wriggling movement. 扭动；蠕动 she gave an impatient little wriggle 她不耐烦地稍微扭动了一下。 Example sentencesExamples She gave a little wriggle of her shoulders, looking uncomfortable. With an awkward wriggle, he dragged his head clear. They do so with minimal effort, with an occasional wriggle of a flank and a sideways motion of a tail. The wriggle brought Shawn into a half wakeful state and he groggily inhaled a faintly flowery scent. Below him, Eric made a convulsive wriggle to get his legs around the bottom of the pipe. My mother's cat, so long terrified by my very presence, appears to be getting used to me, and now does an impressive, fawning wriggle at my feet every time I pass. Alas, three minutes later the fish does a wriggle down deep and the hook comes free. He tried to move again but all he could manage was a wriggle under the blankets. Sea creatures appear lashed by an ocean spray of brilliant white diamonds; the twisting form of an iguana brooch insinuates the darting wriggle of the animal's movements. Verlust watched expectantly, and was rewarded by a wriggle in the vegetation that didn't match the movement of the rest in the soft breeze. He was not gagged, which was a blessing, but the rope was tied tight and limited any movement to a caterpillar-like wriggle. She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him. Synonyms squirm, jiggle, wiggle, jerk, twist, turn Origin Late 15th century: from Middle Low German wriggelen, frequentative of wriggen ‘twist, turn’.
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