as in to fidget
to make jerky or restless movements
the baby wiggled in her sleep
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Recent Examples of wiggle
Paula Aceves, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Once the build is complete, kids can open Baby Bumpy's jaw to feed her snacks, wiggle her tail, and play with more posable features.
—Anja Webb, Parents, 28 Nov. 2025
Real-Time News Team, Miami Herald, 27 Oct. 2025
Although there is wiggle-room for the inflationary temperature/energy scale to be a bit lower than the limit set by cosmic rays, the CMB limits on the maximum post-inflationary temperature cannot be evaded.
—Big Think, 22 Oct. 2025
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Verb
Who doesn’t wanna see little guys dance around and wiggle their bodies in Penn Station?
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Dog with a ‘wiggle butt’ has spent nearly 300 days in shelter.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for wiggle
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Gum may simply feed the desire to fidget, experts suspect.—
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Cole, wearing a khaki jumpsuit, spent much of the hearing sitting quietly and attentively as the parties argued, occasionally adjusting his glasses or fidgeting slightly in his chair.—
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Think egg muffins loaded with veggies, or high-quality ready-to-drink protein shakes.—
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Vintage staples like sundaes, floats, and shakes are still offered too.—
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At 6-foot-4, 255 pounds, Huff at his best has good bend and some twitch to his game.—
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Their usefulness remains an open question At the back of a conference hall at the Mandalay Bay resort in Las Vegas, a humanoid robot twitched through a preprogrammed wave for a crowd of cell phone cameras—a classic scene of high spectacle and unclear utility at CES.—
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The center of the pie will rise, and there should be a slight jiggle to the filling.—
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Even the aerial shots have the jiggle and quiver of a helicopter, not a drone.—
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There is another issue, of course, squirming away in the soft flesh of maternity leave.—
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No sound effect makes people squirm quite like grinding teeth.—
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The 1995 flick also featured Matthew McConaughey, Leah Remini and Brendan Fraser in minor roles.—
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Little bursts of dub delay flare without warning, kicking up dust devils; every now and then, the telltale sweep of the pitch-bend wheel flicks upward like a fast-rising tide and then, after a minute or two, falls back into place.—
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Someone off camera then tossed him that actual T-shirt.—
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Failing to get a criminal conviction tossed and again complaining about the conditions at Rikers Island, Weinstein wants to begin negotiations with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office ahead of his upcoming trial, his lawyer said during a hearing Thursday.—
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For those with less-briny palates, a fine jerk chicken and a number of steak cuts are also available.—
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Mike’s older sister, Nancy (Natalia Dyer), is our entry point to Hawkins High; a pretty striver, she’s recently been distracted from academics by a fling with popular jerk Steve Harrington (Joe Keery).—
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“Wiggle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wiggle. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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