Wriggle vs Squiggle - What's the difference?
wriggle | squiggle |
To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
* Jonathan Swift
* {{quote-book
, year=1972
, author=Carlos Castañeda
, title=The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge
, page=78
To cause to or make something wriggle.
a short twisting or wiggling line or mark
* 1939 , Flora Thompson, Lark Rise
(informal) the tilde
an illegible scrawl
to wriggle or squirm
to make a squiggle
to write (something) illegibly
To shake and wash a fluid about in the mouth with the lips closed.
As verbs the difference between wriggle and squiggle
is that wriggle is to twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm while squiggle is to wriggle or squirm.As nouns the difference between wriggle and squiggle
is that wriggle is a wriggling movement while squiggle is a short twisting or wiggling line or mark.wriggle
English
Verb
(wriggl)- Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
- Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.
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- He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
Derived terms
* wriggler * wrigglyAnagrams
*squiggle
English
Noun
(en noun)- Even the cold ashes where a gipsy's fire had been sent little squiggles of fear down Laura's spine, for how could she know that they were not still lurking near with designs upon her own person?
Verb
(squiggl) (intransitive'' or ''transitive )- (Forby)