wrig

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/ɹɪɡ/

verb

To wriggle.

OriginMiddle English wriggen →
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Meanings

verbwrig (third-person singular simple present wrigs, present participle wrigging, simple past and past participle wrigged)

present singular third person wrigs · participle present wrigging · participle past wrigged · past wrigged

  1. obsoleteTo wriggle.

    Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles

    1846, Douglas William Jerrold, The History of St. Giles and St. James

Origin

  1. Middle Englishwriggen
  2. Englishwrig

From Middle English wriggen. Cognate with Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), German Low German wriggen (“to shake, shudder, rotate”), Dutch wrikken and wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Middle English wrikken (“to move back and forth”). Compare also Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go, move”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with wrig

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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