wigglen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈwɪɡl/, U.S.

/ˈwɪɡ(ə)l/

Etymology: < wiggle v.

A. n.

1. An act of ‘wiggling’, a light wagging or wriggling movement. to get a wiggle on (U.S. slang), to hurry, bustle.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > lightly > instance of

wiggle1817

the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry

hiec1250

skelta1400

hasty?a1425

hasten1534

festinate1652

to look sharp1680

to make play1799

hurry-scurry1809

to tumble up1826

crowd1838

rush1859

hurry1871

to get a move on1888

hurry and scurry1889

to buck up1890

to get a hump on1892

to get a wiggle on1896

to shake a leg1904

to smack it about1914

flurry1917

to step on it (her)1923

to make it snappy1926

jildi1930

to get an iggri on1946

ert-

1817 J. K. Paulding Lett. from South I. 235 They suffered their hair to grow into a mighty bunch behind, and walked with the genuine Rutland wiggle; that is to say, on tiptoe, and with a most portentous extension of the hinder-parts.

1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxiv. 355 Rob's footstool had a wiggle in its uneven legs.

1894 Educator (Philadelphia) Feb. 279 Every fleeting expression of their faces or wiggle of their bodies.

1896 Inlander Jan. 147 Get a wiggle on you, hurry up; bestir yourself.

1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy iv Hasn't the boss got a wiggle on himself to-day!

1904 E. Robins Magn. North xvii. 298 You can bunk early and get a four a.m. wiggle on.

2. = wiggler n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of (gnat or mosquito) > aquatic larva of

wiggle1831

wiggletail1855

tumbler1858

wiggler1859

1831 T. Buttrick Voy. 78 The water was very bad... After straining it would still exhibit live insects, which they call wiggles.

3. A wavy line drawn by a pen, pencil, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > [noun] > other lines

linea1382

rulec1475

stroke1567

trig1648

ductor1658

style1690

pencil line1758

guideline1785

section-line1827

subhorizon1829

broken line1937

wiggle1942

1942 Punch 12 Aug. 127/1 An old envelope bearing the regimental Paymaster's stamp, partly obliterated by adhesive tape, and the word ‘Confidential’ crossed out with a wiggle in pencil.

1967 R. D. Mattuck Guide to Feynman Diagrams in Many-body Probl. iv. 63 The majority of writers draw the above interaction with a dashed line... However, we shall always use the wiggle.

B. adj.

‘Wiggling’, wagging swiftly and lightly.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > wagging > lightly

wiggling1611

wiggle-waggle1778

wiggle1888

wiggly-woggly1903

1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 324 Butting under the mothers' teats with their wiggle tails.

Draft additions June 2004

wiggle room n. originally and chiefly U.S. space in which to move (in a restricted manner); (in extended use) capacity to manoeuvre or negotiate, esp. in order to modify a previous statement or decision; allowance made for the possibility of error or change.

ΚΠ

1941 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 2 Sept. 3 (advt.) Pumps look petite..give you lots of wiggle room.

1965 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 7 Apr. 7/6 Clark said ‘We've gone about to the outer limit’ in military action against the Communist guerillas. He said he wants ‘wiggle room’ left for negotiations to avoid a major war.

1978 Business Week 11 Sept. 92/3 Congress has drafted regulatory legislation in a way that gives agencies..as little ‘wiggle room’ as possible.

1997 Chicago Tribune 16 Feb. xii. 13/1 Suburban's cabin is wide enough so you have some ‘wiggle room’ as Chevy calls it, space to move arms and legs without bumping into your ridemates.

2001 National Post (Canada) 18 June a14/2 Mr. Bush..expressed continuing support for NATO enlargement but emphasized that all potential members must first meet their obligations. Not an offer of a direct tradeoff, yet it leaves Mr. Bush with wiggle room.

Draft additions September 2021

An irregularity in a calibration curve in which measured radiocarbon dates are plotted against dates established by other means (such as dendrochronology); cf. Suess wiggle n. at Suess n. 2. Also in extended use: any minor deviation from smoothness of a line on a graph; a small temporary variation in a measured quantity.Quot. 1970 cites the paper referred to in quot. 1972, but in fact uses the term wriggle in the same sense.

ΚΠ

1970 H. E. Suess in Proc. 12th Nobel Symp. 1969 309 I think we have a fairly good picture of where these wriggles occur and perhaps also of what they mean.]

1972 Archaeometry 14 7 At the Twelfth Nobel Symposium at Uppsala in 1970, reservations were expressed by some participants..about the precision with which the kinks or ‘wiggles’ in the calibration curve have been documented.

1984 New Scientist 6 Dec. 22/1 There can now be precise ‘wiggle-matching’ with the radiocarbon calibration curve obtained from the bristlecone pine.

1991 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 24 Nov. b4/1 For every small wiggle in the unemployment rate, there are millions..with fear.

2007 Astron. & Geophysics Feb. 21/1 Over the past 12 000 years, there were many icy intervals like the Little Ice Age—eight to ten, depending on how you count the wiggles in the density of ice-rafted debris.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wigglev.

Brit.

/ˈwɪɡl/, U.S.

/ˈwɪɡ(ə)l/

Forms: Middle English wigel(en, Middle English wygle, wigel, 1600s wigle, 1800s wiggle, (Scottish weegle).

Etymology: Cognate with or < (Middle) Low German wiggelen , Middle Dutch wighelen (Dutch wiggelen ), frequentative < wig- (compare Low German wiggen , Norwegian dialect vigge , wig v.¹). Compare the parallel wag v., waggle v.Some compare Old English wiccliende (Haupt's Zeitschrift IX. 459/6) glossing nutabundum, but this is probably an error for cwiccliende (Napier O.E. Glosses i. 2234).

Now colloquial or dialect.

1. intransitive. To move to and fro or from side to side irregularly and lightly, to waggle; to walk with such a movement, to stagger, reel, also to waddle (now dialect); to go or move sinuously, to wriggle. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle

wiggle?c1225

wriggle1495

wraggle?a1513

wrabble1513

sprinklea1522

wrig1599

squirm1691

scrigglea1701

wraxle1746

squiggle1816

wiggle-waggle1827

swiggle1837

scurrifunge1894

the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily

wiggle?c1225

walter1399

falterc1400

stammerc1400

dotterc1475

stavera1500

stumblea1500

reel1529

scamblec1571

halper1596

totter1602

folder1607

wamble1611

to make a Virginia fence1671

wandle1686

fribble1709

rock1718

stoit1719

stoiter1724

swagger1724

doddle1761

stotter1781

toit1786

doiter1793

stot1801

dodder1819

twaddle1823

teeter1844

shoggle1884

welter1884

warple1887

whemmel1895

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > wag > lightly

wiga1529

wiggle1839

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Þe ȝiuere glutun..wiȝeleð [a1250 Nero wigeleð, c1230 Corpus wigleð] as for drunken mon.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. ix. (Add. MS. 27944) Centris is a serpente þat bendiþ noughte nouþer wigeleþ but holdeþ alway forþ right.

1611 [see wiggling n. and adj. at Derivatives].

1839 in F. W. Maitland Leslie Stephen (1906) 25 He wished I would not read that kind of book that went wiggling from one subject to another.

1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. ii To pass the morning, to use his own quaint language, ‘in making dodging calls, and wiggling round among the ladies!’

1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xiv. 133 I warselled an' weegled, an' kickit, an' flang.

1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 340/1 He wiggled over the grass towards the concealed marksman.

1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) vii. 122 Father..pulled his lower lip until his ears almost wiggled.

1927 H. A. Vachell Dew of Sea & Other Stories 260 I must wiggle out of the mess.

2. transitive. To move (something) in this way; reflexive = 1. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wag > lightly

wiggle1685

wiggle-waggle1897

1685 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 343 A bare shift or pretence to wigle myself out of danger.

c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 86 Wiggle yourselves..among the three, and make headway the best way you can.

1897 V. Hunt Unkist, Unkind! xii He unhooked a Malay kris..and wiggled it about in the crack of the door.

Derivatives

ˈwiggling n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > lightly

wiggling1398

wiggle-waggle1825

the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > wagging > lightly

wiggling1611

wiggle-waggle1778

wiggle1888

wiggly-woggly1903

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. ix Serpentes swymmeþ in water bi wiglinge and foldinge of þe bodie [L. per corporis inflexionem].

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Serpentant,..wrigling, wigling, crooking, winding.

1849 A. Smith Pottleton Legacy (repr.) 51 One of those little wiggling dogs.

1894 Educator (Philadelphia) Mar. The ceaseless motion—the wiggling of the child.

1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 541/2 A small, wiggling fish.

ˈwiggletail n. name for the larva of a gnat or mosquito.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of (gnat or mosquito) > aquatic larva of

wiggle1831

wiggletail1855

tumbler1858

wiggler1859

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > genus Culex or tribe Culicini > member of > larva

gnat-worm1806

wiggletail1855

1855 Chicago Times 9 Aug. 4/6 The mosquito proceeds from the animalcule commonly termed the wiggle-tail.

1884 J. C. Harris Nights with Uncle Remus 172 Water too full of wiggletails.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	wiggle
释义	wigglen.adj. Brit. /ˈwɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈwɪɡ(ə)l/ Etymology: < wiggle v. A. n. 1. An act of ‘wiggling’, a light wagging or wriggling movement. to get a wiggle on (U.S. slang), to hurry, bustle. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > lightly > instance of wiggle1817 the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > proceed rapidly [verb (intransitive)] > hasten or hurry hiec1250 skelta1400 hasty?a1425 hasten1534 festinate1652 to look sharp1680 to make play1799 hurry-scurry1809 to tumble up1826 crowd1838 rush1859 hurry1871 to get a move on1888 hurry and scurry1889 to buck up1890 to get a hump on1892 to get a wiggle on1896 to shake a leg1904 to smack it about1914 flurry1917 to step on it (her)1923 to make it snappy1926 jildi1930 to get an iggri on1946 ert- 1817 J. K. Paulding Lett. from South I. 235 They suffered their hair to grow into a mighty bunch behind, and walked with the genuine Rutland wiggle; that is to say, on tiptoe, and with a most portentous extension of the hinder-parts. 1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. xxiv. 355 Rob's footstool had a wiggle in its uneven legs. 1894 Educator (Philadelphia) Feb. 279 Every fleeting expression of their faces or wiggle of their bodies. 1896 Inlander Jan. 147 Get a wiggle on you, hurry up; bestir yourself. 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy iv Hasn't the boss got a wiggle on himself to-day! 1904 E. Robins Magn. North xvii. 298 You can bunk early and get a four a.m. wiggle on. 2. = wiggler n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of (gnat or mosquito) > aquatic larva of wiggle1831 wiggletail1855 tumbler1858 wiggler1859 1831 T. Buttrick Voy. 78 The water was very bad... After straining it would still exhibit live insects, which they call wiggles. 3. A wavy line drawn by a pen, pencil, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > [noun] > other lines linea1382 rulec1475 stroke1567 trig1648 ductor1658 style1690 pencil line1758 guideline1785 section-line1827 subhorizon1829 broken line1937 wiggle1942 1942 Punch 12 Aug. 127/1 An old envelope bearing the regimental Paymaster's stamp, partly obliterated by adhesive tape, and the word ‘Confidential’ crossed out with a wiggle in pencil. 1967 R. D. Mattuck Guide to Feynman Diagrams in Many-body Probl. iv. 63 The majority of writers draw the above interaction with a dashed line... However, we shall always use the wiggle. B. adj. ‘Wiggling’, wagging swiftly and lightly. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > wagging > lightly wiggling1611 wiggle-waggle1778 wiggle1888 wiggly-woggly1903 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 324 Butting under the mothers' teats with their wiggle tails. Draft additions June 2004 wiggle room n. originally and chiefly U.S. space in which to move (in a restricted manner); (in extended use) capacity to manoeuvre or negotiate, esp. in order to modify a previous statement or decision; allowance made for the possibility of error or change. ΚΠ 1941 Reno (Nevada) Evening Gaz. 2 Sept. 3 (advt.) Pumps look petite..give you lots of wiggle room. 1965 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 7 Apr. 7/6 Clark said ‘We've gone about to the outer limit’ in military action against the Communist guerillas. He said he wants ‘wiggle room’ left for negotiations to avoid a major war. 1978 Business Week 11 Sept. 92/3 Congress has drafted regulatory legislation in a way that gives agencies..as little ‘wiggle room’ as possible. 1997 Chicago Tribune 16 Feb. xii. 13/1 Suburban's cabin is wide enough so you have some ‘wiggle room’ as Chevy calls it, space to move arms and legs without bumping into your ridemates. 2001 National Post (Canada) 18 June a14/2 Mr. Bush..expressed continuing support for NATO enlargement but emphasized that all potential members must first meet their obligations. Not an offer of a direct tradeoff, yet it leaves Mr. Bush with wiggle room. Draft additions September 2021 An irregularity in a calibration curve in which measured radiocarbon dates are plotted against dates established by other means (such as dendrochronology); cf. Suess wiggle n. at Suess n. 2. Also in extended use: any minor deviation from smoothness of a line on a graph; a small temporary variation in a measured quantity.Quot. 1970 cites the paper referred to in quot. 1972, but in fact uses the term wriggle in the same sense. ΚΠ 1970 H. E. Suess in Proc. 12th Nobel Symp. 1969 309 I think we have a fairly good picture of where these wriggles occur and perhaps also of what they mean.] 1972 Archaeometry 14 7 At the Twelfth Nobel Symposium at Uppsala in 1970, reservations were expressed by some participants..about the precision with which the kinks or ‘wiggles’ in the calibration curve have been documented. 1984 New Scientist 6 Dec. 22/1 There can now be precise ‘wiggle-matching’ with the radiocarbon calibration curve obtained from the bristlecone pine. 1991 Commercial Appeal (Memphis, Tennessee) 24 Nov. b4/1 For every small wiggle in the unemployment rate, there are millions..with fear. 2007 Astron. & Geophysics Feb. 21/1 Over the past 12 000 years, there were many icy intervals like the Little Ice Age—eight to ten, depending on how you count the wiggles in the density of ice-rafted debris. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021). wigglev. Brit. /ˈwɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈwɪɡ(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English wigel(en, Middle English wygle, wigel, 1600s wigle, 1800s wiggle, (Scottish weegle). Etymology: Cognate with or < (Middle) Low German wiggelen , Middle Dutch wighelen (Dutch wiggelen ), frequentative < wig- (compare Low German wiggen , Norwegian dialect vigge , wig v.¹). Compare the parallel wag v., waggle v.Some compare Old English wiccliende (Haupt's Zeitschrift IX. 459/6) glossing nutabundum, but this is probably an error for cwiccliende (Napier O.E. Glosses i. 2234). Now colloquial or dialect. 1. intransitive. To move to and fro or from side to side irregularly and lightly, to waggle; to walk with such a movement, to stagger, reel, also to waddle (now dialect); to go or move sinuously, to wriggle. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle wiggle?c1225 wriggle1495 wraggle?a1513 wrabble1513 sprinklea1522 wrig1599 squirm1691 scrigglea1701 wraxle1746 squiggle1816 wiggle-waggle1827 swiggle1837 scurrifunge1894 the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > unsteadily wiggle?c1225 walter1399 falterc1400 stammerc1400 dotterc1475 stavera1500 stumblea1500 reel1529 scamblec1571 halper1596 totter1602 folder1607 wamble1611 to make a Virginia fence1671 wandle1686 fribble1709 rock1718 stoit1719 stoiter1724 swagger1724 doddle1761 stotter1781 toit1786 doiter1793 stot1801 dodder1819 twaddle1823 teeter1844 shoggle1884 welter1884 warple1887 whemmel1895 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > wag > lightly wiga1529 wiggle1839 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Þe ȝiuere glutun..wiȝeleð [a1250 Nero wigeleð, c1230 Corpus wigleð] as for drunken mon. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xviii. ix. (Add. MS. 27944) Centris is a serpente þat bendiþ noughte nouþer wigeleþ but holdeþ alway forþ right. 1611 [see wiggling n. and adj. at Derivatives]. 1839 in F. W. Maitland Leslie Stephen (1906) 25 He wished I would not read that kind of book that went wiggling from one subject to another. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion II. iv. ii To pass the morning, to use his own quaint language, ‘in making dodging calls, and wiggling round among the ladies!’ 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xiv. 133 I warselled an' weegled, an' kickit, an' flang. 1901 Munsey's Mag. 25 340/1 He wiggled over the grass towards the concealed marksman. 1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie (1917) vii. 122 Father..pulled his lower lip until his ears almost wiggled. 1927 H. A. Vachell Dew of Sea & Other Stories 260 I must wiggle out of the mess. 2. transitive. To move (something) in this way; reflexive = 1. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wag > lightly wiggle1685 wiggle-waggle1897 1685 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 343 A bare shift or pretence to wigle myself out of danger. c1850 ‘Dow, Jr.’ in W. Jerdan Yankee Humour (1853) 86 Wiggle yourselves..among the three, and make headway the best way you can. 1897 V. Hunt Unkist, Unkind! xii He unhooked a Malay kris..and wiggled it about in the crack of the door. Derivatives ˈwiggling n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > lightly wiggling1398 wiggle-waggle1825 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [adjective] > wagging > lightly wiggling1611 wiggle-waggle1778 wiggle1888 wiggly-woggly1903 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xviii. ix Serpentes swymmeþ in water bi wiglinge and foldinge of þe bodie [L. per corporis inflexionem]. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Serpentant,..wrigling, wigling, crooking, winding. 1849 A. Smith Pottleton Legacy (repr.) 51 One of those little wiggling dogs. 1894 Educator (Philadelphia) Mar. The ceaseless motion—the wiggling of the child. 1895 Cent. Mag. Aug. 541/2 A small, wiggling fish. ˈwiggletail n. name for the larva of a gnat or mosquito. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > member of (gnat or mosquito) > aquatic larva of wiggle1831 wiggletail1855 tumbler1858 wiggler1859 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > suborder Nematocera > family Culicidae > genus Culex or tribe Culicini > member of > larva gnat-worm1806 wiggletail1855 1855 Chicago Times 9 Aug. 4/6 The mosquito proceeds from the animalcule commonly termed the wiggle-tail. 1884 J. C. Harris Nights with Uncle Remus 172 Water too full of wiggletails. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1817v.?c1225
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