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▪ I. scriggle, n. Chiefly dial.|ˈskrɪg(ə)l|
[f. scriggle v.]
A wriggle; also, a scrawly piece of writing.
1832J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. in Blackw. Mag. Apr. 697 Unproductive of so much as the scriggle of a single tadpole. 1895E. Angl. Gloss., Scriggle, a quick motion caused by tickling, a wriggle. 1905Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 4/5 The last scriggle I had from him came on Friday night.
▪ II. scriggle, v. Chiefly dial.: see Eng. Dial. Dict.|ˈskrɪg(ə)l|
Also sk-.
[Phonetically symbolic: cf. scruggle v.]
intr. To wriggle or struggle.
1806Bloomfield Wild Flowers, Horkey 169 They skriggl'd and began to scold, But laughing got the master. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 359 How brisk [the fish] play And swarm, and scriggle everywhere! 1895E. Angl. Gloss., Skriggle, to wriggle or struggle away.
Hence ˈscriggler, a wriggling creature; ˈscriggling ppl. a., that ‘scriggles’; ˈscriggly a., wriggly, scrawly.
1823E. Moor Suffolk Words 355 A skrigglen eel. 1854A. E. Baker Northampt. Gloss. II. 207 A person who writes a light, scratchy, irregular hand, is said to write a scriggling hand. 1888Fenn Dick o' Fens 232 The scriggly legs of a beetle. 1895A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 51 Into it [the eel-set] the scrigglers swim. 1905Daily Chron. 16 Nov. 4/6 L. F. Austin's scriggly manuscript. |