Verb

To shake, quiver, or vibrate.

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Verb

(wriggl)

To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.

Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.

* Jonathan Swift

Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.

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To cause to or make something wriggle.

He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.