"wriggle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪɡəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: wriggles [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪɡəl Etymology: From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wrig|le|id2=verbal frequentative|pos2=frequentative suffix}} wrig + -le (frequentative suffix), {{cog|nl|wriggelen|t=to wriggle, squirm}} Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), {{cog|nds|wriggeln|t=to wriggle}} Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), {{cog|ang|wrigian|t=to turn, wend, hie, go move}} Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), {{cog|gem-pro|*wrigōną|t=to wriggle}} Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”) Head templates: {{en-noun}} wriggle (plural wriggles)
  1. A wriggling movement. Derived forms: get a wriggle on, wriggle room Translations (wriggling movement): kiemurtelu (Finnish), contorsione [feminine] (Italian)
    Sense id: en-wriggle-en-noun-kT1Kc6OO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -le (verbal frequentative) Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 26 10 17 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 47 21 8 25 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -le (verbal frequentative): 46 21 17 16

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈɹɪɡəl/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav [Southern-England] Forms: wriggles [present, singular, third-person], wriggling [participle, present], wriggled [participle, past], wriggled [past]
Rhymes: -ɪɡəl Etymology: From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wrig|le|id2=verbal frequentative|pos2=frequentative suffix}} wrig + -le (frequentative suffix), {{cog|nl|wriggelen|t=to wriggle, squirm}} Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), {{cog|nds|wriggeln|t=to wriggle}} Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), {{cog|ang|wrigian|t=to turn, wend, hie, go move}} Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), {{cog|gem-pro|*wrigōną|t=to wriggle}} Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} wriggle (third-person singular simple present wriggles, present participle wriggling, simple past and past participle wriggled)
  1. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. Tags: intransitive Synonyms: wiggle Translations (to twist one's body and move the limbs): гърча се (gǎrča se) (Bulgarian), извивам се (izvivam se) (Bulgarian), 蠢動 (Chinese Mandarin), 蠢动 (chǔndòng) (Chinese Mandarin), 蠕動 (Chinese Mandarin), 蠕动 (rúdòng) (Chinese Mandarin), wiebelen (Dutch), barakti (Esperanto), kiemurrella (Finnish), remuer (French), se tortiller (French), sich winden (German), sich schlänglen (German), zappeln (German), στριφογυρίζω (strifogyrízo) (Greek), fészkelődik (Hungarian), izeg-mozog (Hungarian), tekereg (Hungarian), tekergőzik (Hungarian), bí ag lúbarnaíl (Irish), contorcersi (Italian), うごめく (ugomeku) (Japanese), のたくる (notakuru) (Japanese), ᡳᠪᡠᡵᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ (iburšambi) (Manchu), takatū (Maori), tīkorikori (Maori), onioni (Maori), kareu (Maori), korikori (Maori), koropeka (Maori), oioi (Maori), hīkaikai (note: of restless feet) (Maori), āuta (Maori), بالقلامق (balıklamak) (Ottoman Turkish), contorcer-se (Portuguese), извива́ться (izvivátʹsja) (Russian), migoljiti (Serbo-Croatian), meškoljiti (Serbo-Croatian), мигољити (Serbo-Croatian), мешкољити (Serbo-Croatian), retorcerse (Spanish), serpentear (Spanish), slingra (Swedish), vifta (Swedish), vicka (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-wriggle-en-verb-Sze0G-Z8 Disambiguation of "to twist one's body and move the limbs": 90 7 3
  2. (transitive) To cause something to wriggle. Tags: transitive Synonyms: wiggle Translations (to make or cause to wriggle): усуквам (usukvam) (Bulgarian), извивам (izvivam) (Bulgarian), wiebelen (Dutch), kiemurteluttaa (Finnish), mozgat (Hungarian), teker (Hungarian), tekerget (Hungarian), csavargat (Hungarian), whakatīkorikori (Maori), contorcer (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-wriggle-en-verb-x2EUOQJI Disambiguation of 'to make or cause to wriggle': 2 95 3
  3. (intransitive) To use crooked or devious means. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-wriggle-en-verb--4nYOZdd
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: wriggle out of, wriggler, wriggly

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          "text": "Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats."
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          "ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 5",
          "text": "Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.",
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          "ref": "1886, Alexander Melville Bell, “An Alphabet of Orators”, in Essays and Postscripts on Elocution, page 171",
          "text": "In this category the Wriggling Orator claims our attention. This St. Vitus-like speaker does not stand firmly in his boots, but his feet wriggle from heel to toe and over one another; his knees are not braced to hold up his body, but they wriggle outwards, inwards, backwards, forwards; his sides are not erect to sustain his chest, but they bend and wriggle, first one way then another; his shoulders are not squared to the spectator's eye, but they wriggle up, down, out, in; his arms are not expanded in their movements, but they wriggle about and seem to crawl over his body. His head wriggles on the wriggling neck,—his tongue wriggles in his mouth,—the words wriggle out,—and he wriggles all over, and all together.",
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          "ref": "1972, Carlos Castañeda, The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, page 78",
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
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          "roman": "gǎrča se",
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          "word": "гърча се"
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          "roman": "izvivam se",
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          "word": "wiebelen"
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          "code": "eo",
          "lang": "Esperanto",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "barakti"
        },
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "kiemurrella"
        },
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "remuer"
        },
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "se tortiller"
        },
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "sich winden"
        },
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          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "sich schlänglen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "zappeln"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "strifogyrízo",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "στριφογυρίζω"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "fészkelődik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "izeg-mozog"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "tekereg"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "tekergőzik"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "ga",
          "lang": "Irish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "bí ag lúbarnaíl"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "contorcersi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "ugomeku",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "うごめく"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "notakuru",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "のたくる"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mnc",
          "lang": "Manchu",
          "roman": "iburšambi",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "ᡳᠪᡠᡵᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "takatū"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "tīkorikori"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "onioni"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "kareu"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "korikori"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "koropeka"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "oioi"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "note": "of restless feet",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "hīkaikai"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "āuta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "ota",
          "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
          "roman": "balıklamak",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "بالقلامق"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "contorcer-se"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "izvivátʹsja",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "извива́ться"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "migoljiti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "meškoljiti"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "мигољити"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "мешкољити"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "retorcerse"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "serpentear"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "slingra"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "vifta"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "90 7 3",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
          "word": "vicka"
        }
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          "text": "He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass."
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        "(transitive) To cause something to wriggle."
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          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "usukvam",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "усуквам"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "izvivam",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "извивам"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "wiebelen"
        },
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          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "kiemurteluttaa"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "mozgat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "teker"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "tekerget"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "csavargat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "whakatīkorikori"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "2 95 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
          "word": "contorcer"
        }
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        "To use crooked or devious means."
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        "(intransitive) To use crooked or devious means."
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    },
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      },
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    },
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          "sense": "wriggling movement",
          "word": "kiemurtelu"
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          "sense": "wriggling movement",
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          "text": "Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats."
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          "ref": "1724, Jonathan Swift, “Drapier's Letters”, in 5",
          "text": "Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted.",
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          "ref": "1886, Alexander Melville Bell, “An Alphabet of Orators”, in Essays and Postscripts on Elocution, page 171",
          "text": "In this category the Wriggling Orator claims our attention. This St. Vitus-like speaker does not stand firmly in his boots, but his feet wriggle from heel to toe and over one another; his knees are not braced to hold up his body, but they wriggle outwards, inwards, backwards, forwards; his sides are not erect to sustain his chest, but they bend and wriggle, first one way then another; his shoulders are not squared to the spectator's eye, but they wriggle up, down, out, in; his arms are not expanded in their movements, but they wriggle about and seem to crawl over his body. His head wriggles on the wriggling neck,—his tongue wriggles in his mouth,—the words wriggle out,—and he wriggles all over, and all together.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Carlos Castañeda, The teachings of Don Juan: a Yaqui way of knowledge, page 78",
          "text": "I tried to ease my grip, but my hands were sweating so profusely that the lizards began to wriggle out of them.",
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          "text": "He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass."
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      "roman": "gǎrča se",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "гърча се"
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      "roman": "izvivam se",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "извивам се"
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      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "蠢動"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "chǔndòng",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "蠢动"
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "蠕動"
    },
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      "code": "cmn",
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      "roman": "rúdòng",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "蠕动"
    },
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      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "wiebelen"
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      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "barakti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "kiemurrella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "remuer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "se tortiller"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "sich winden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "sich schlänglen"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "zappeln"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "strifogyrízo",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "στριφογυρίζω"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "fészkelődik"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "izeg-mozog"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "tekereg"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "tekergőzik"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "bí ag lúbarnaíl"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "contorcersi"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "ugomeku",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "うごめく"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "notakuru",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "のたくる"
    },
    {
      "code": "mnc",
      "lang": "Manchu",
      "roman": "iburšambi",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "ᡳᠪᡠᡵᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "takatū"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "tīkorikori"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "onioni"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "kareu"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "korikori"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "koropeka"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "oioi"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "note": "of restless feet",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "hīkaikai"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "āuta"
    },
    {
      "code": "ota",
      "lang": "Ottoman Turkish",
      "roman": "balıklamak",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "بالقلامق"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "contorcer-se"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "izvivátʹsja",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "извива́ться"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "migoljiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "meškoljiti"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "мигољити"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "мешкољити"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "retorcerse"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "serpentear"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "slingra"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "vifta"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
      "word": "vicka"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "usukvam",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "усуквам"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "izvivam",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "извивам"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "wiebelen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "kiemurteluttaa"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "mozgat"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "teker"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "tekerget"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "csavargat"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "whakatīkorikori"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
      "word": "contorcer"
    }
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}

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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈɹɪɡəl/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪɡəl"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b7/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-wriggle.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "wriggling movement",
      "word": "kiemurtelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "wriggling movement",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "contorsione"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wriggle"
}

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