| 单词 | jiggle |
| 释义 | jiggle (once / 18761 pages) vn To jiggle is to move very quickly back and forth or up and down. If you ride in a car over bumpy roads holding a bowl of Jello on your lap, you can watch it jiggle until you reach your destination. You might feel your body jiggle when you ride on a galloping horse, and you can also jiggle something, like when you accidentally jiggle a chess board and send the pieces flying. The action of moving in this way is a jiggle. Jiggle comes from jig, "lively dance," and is probably an alteration of the earlier joggle, "move with jerks or small bobs." WORD FAMILYjiggle: jiggled, jiggles, jiggling USAGE EXAMPLESA motor causes the thin, upright metal rods of Mike Shaffer’s “Ocean Motion” to jiggle and sway. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Transfer the pan to the oven and bake until the cake is almost set but jiggles slightly in the center, 2 to 3 minutes. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) “No breasts bounce in space, no jiggling in the Empire,” Fisher snickered, as quoted in Jones’s book. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1v move to and fro Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage! Syn|Hypo|Hyper joggle, wiggle wag, waggle move from side to side agitate, shake move or cause to move back and forth 2n a slight irregular shaking motion Syn|Hyper joggle shaking the act of causing something to move up and down (or back and forth) with quick movements |
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