Verb

(head)

(wriggle)

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.

* {{quote-book

, year=1972 , author=Carlos Castañeda , title=The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge , page=78 citation , passage=I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.}}

To cause to or make something wriggle.

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

Verb

(head)

(wrig)

Verb

(obsolete) To wriggle.

(Skelton)

(Webster 1913)