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Wavy vs Wiggly - What's the difference?

wavy | wiggly |

As adjectives the difference between wavy and wiggly

is that wavy is rising or swelling in waves while wiggly is constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

As a noun wavy

is (goose).

wavy

English

Etymology 1

Adjective

(er)
  • Rising or swelling in waves.
  • Full of waves.
  • Moving to and fro; undulating.
  • Having wave-like shapes on its border or surface; waved.
  • (botany, of a margin) Moving up and down relative to the surface; undulate.
  • (heraldry) , in a wavy line; applied to ordinaries, or division lines.

    • Etymology 2

    See wavey .

    Noun

    (wavies)
  • (goose).
  • * 1862 , in The Zoologist: a popular miscellany of natural history , volume 20, page 7835:
    • According to Indian report, a great breeding-ground for the blue wavy is the country lying in the interior of the north-east point of Labrador, Cape Dudley Digges.
  • * 1888 , in the Journals of the Senate of Canada , volume 22, Appendix 1, page 237:
    • The blue and white wavies breed in the barren grounds and feed chiefly on berries.

    wiggly

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.
    • It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.
  • (of a line) Made up of many curves

    • Synonyms

    * fidgety * jiggly * jumpy * squirmy