wiggly

wigg·ly
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UK/ˈwɪɡl̩i/US/ˈwɪɡ(ə)li/

adjective

Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

“It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.”

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Meanings

adjectivewiggly (comparative wigglier, superlative wiggliest)

comparative wigglier · superlative wiggliest

  1. Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

    It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.

    1 more example

    Analyze it. A faint suggestion of turned in toes. A kind of wiggly looseness below the knee prolonged to the end of each footfall. The ghost of a drag. Very infantile, infinitely meretricious.

    1955 September 15, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 11, in Lolita, Paris: The Olympia Press […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: fidgety, jiggly, jumpy, squirmy, wigglesome

  2. Of a line: made up of many curves.

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveConstantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

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fidgetyjigglyjumpysquirmywigglesome

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivecurved or curving in and out

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sinuatesinuouscurvedcurving

adjectivemoving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion

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wrigglingwrigglywrithingmoving
Also see
sinuatesinuouswavywigglesomewrigglingwrigglywrithing

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

From wiggle + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian wiggelg, wiggelch (“wiggly”), German Low German wiggelig (“wiggly, restless, fidgety”).

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Translations

Finnish vääntelehtivä, tempoileva
  • vääntelehtiväconstantly moving
  • tempoilevaconstantly moving
  • kiemurtelevamade of many curves
  • kiemurainenmade of many curves
Russian волнистый
  • волнистый (volnistyj)made of many curves

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with wiggly

gigglysquigglyjigglynigglywriggly
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Cite this entry
APA

wiggly. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiggly

MLA

“wiggly.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiggly. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wiggly,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiggly.

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