wriggle

wriggle

wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)

1. (intransitive) To slightly twist ones body and quickly move ones limbs.

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

   • 1972, Carlos Castañeda, The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge^[1], page 78:

     I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.

2. (transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.

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

wriggle (plural wriggles)

1. A wriggling movement.

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guizzare

serpeggiare

Altri significati:

to make or cause to wriggle

(transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.

to twist one's body and move the limbs

(intransitive) To slightly twist one's body and quickly move one's limbs.

A wriggling movement.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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