Verb
wiggle (third-person singular simple present wiggles, present participle wiggling, simple past and past participle wiggled)
- (transitive, intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
Her hips wiggle as she walks.
The jelly wiggles on the plate when you move it.
1992, “Jump”, performed by Kris Kross:I'll make ya bump, hump, wiggle and shake your rump
2012, Stephen King, 11/22/63, page 788:"These modern dances!" he grunted, grabbing his smokes. "They don't do nothing but teach the kids how to bump n wiggle."
Translations
to move with irregular motions
- Bikol Central: hikol-hikol
- Bulgarian: мърдам (bg) (mǎrdam), шавам (bg) (šavam), въртя се (vǎrtja se)
- Danish: vrikke
- Dutch: wiebelen (nl)
- Esperanto: svingeti
- Finnish: tytistä, hytistä (fi), tutista (fi), hytkyä (fi), hyllyä (fi) (intransitive); hytisyttää, tutisuttaa, hytkyttää (fi) (transitive)
- French: frétiller (fr), se tortiller
- Galician: abanear (gl)
- Georgian: ქნევა (kneva), ქიცინი (kicini) (especially for dog's tail)
- German: schlängeln (de), schwänzeln (de), wackeln (de), hin und her wackeln
- Hungarian: (intransitive) ficánkol (hu), ring (hu), ringatózik (hu), hullámzik (hu), (transitive) riszál (hu), csóvál (hu), mozgat (hu), ringat (hu)
- Maori: pīonioni
- Norwegian: vrikke
- Portuguese: rebolar (pt), sacolejar (pt)
- Russian: покачивать (ru) (pokačivatʹ), раскачиваться (ru) (raskačivatʹsja)
- Spanish: menear (es), contonear (es)
- Swedish: vicka (sv)
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Noun
wiggle (plural wiggles)
- A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
She walked with a sexy wiggle.
- (figurative) An alternating state or characteristic. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (in the plural) See wiggles.