Wiggle vs Piggle - What's the difference?
wiggle | piggle |
(intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.
(rare) A long-handled fork for mixing or digging.
* 1859 , Murray's Handbook for Devon and Cornwall page 244:
To dig or uproot; to scrape.
* 1841 , Charles Hooton, Colin Clink page 140:
To toy with or fiddle.
* 1876 , Alfred Dawson, English Landscape Art, in its Position and Prospects page 16:
* 1922 , D.H. Lawrence, The Fox page 48:
To cause to worry, to make uncomfortable; niggle.
* 1899 , David Belasco, "Naughty Anthony":
To worry about minor points.
* 1836 , Joanna Baillee, "The Alienated Manor: A Comedy":
As verbs the difference between wiggle and piggle
is that wiggle is (intransitive) to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle while piggle is to dig or uproot; to scrape.As nouns the difference between wiggle and piggle
is that wiggle is a wiggling movement while piggle is (rare) a long-handled fork for mixing or digging.wiggle
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Verb
- Her hips wiggle as she walks.
- The jelly wiggle s on the plate when you move it.
Derived terms
* get a wiggle on * wiggle room * wiggly English frequentative verbspiggle
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Noun
(en noun)- A heap of it is then placed upon an inclined platform, under a small fall of water, and repeatedly stirred with a piggle and shovel...
Verb
(en-verb)- I took my revenge on th' round-house, for I piggled all th' plaster off o' the walls that I could...
- Then all nature was presently converted into an object for microscopic study, so that everything, whether near or far, must be piggled at and made clear to the utmost limit of human power.
- Banford, at the other end of the table, said not a word, but piggled with the sardine on her plate.
- BUDD. Get up yourself, and shut up, too! You have piggled me enough, you old smooty-snoot!
- But of what value is all that piggling , niggling, — you call the little thing piggling, niggling?