See wriggle on Wiktionary
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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:",
"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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"(intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm."
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"roman": "gǎrča se",
"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "гърча се"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "sich winden"
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"word": "sich schlänglen"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "zappeln"
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"roman": "strifogyrízo",
"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "στριφογυρίζω"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "bí ag lúbarnaíl"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"roman": "ugomeku",
"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "うごめく"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "のたくる"
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"roman": "iburšambi",
"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "ᡳᠪᡠᡵᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "takatū"
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"word": "tīkorikori"
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"word": "onioni"
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"word": "kareu"
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"note": "of restless feet",
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"roman": "izvivátʹsja",
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"word": "извива́ться"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "serpentear"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"word": "vicka"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"text": "He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.",
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"To cause something to wriggle."
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"(transitive) To cause something to wriggle."
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"roman": "usukvam",
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"word": "усуквам"
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"To use crooked or devious means."
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"word": "kiemurtelu"
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"code": "ga",
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"word": "bí ag lúbarnaíl"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "ᡳᠪᡠᡵᡧᠠᠮᠪᡳ"
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"code": "mi",
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"word": "oioi"
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"code": "mi",
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"note": "of restless feet",
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"code": "ota",
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"word": "بالقلامق"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
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"roman": "izvivátʹsja",
"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "извива́ться"
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "мешкољити"
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"word": "serpentear"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "vifta"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to twist one's body and move the limbs",
"word": "vicka"
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"roman": "usukvam",
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"sense": "to make or cause to wriggle",
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"code": "hu",
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"word": "kiemurtelu"
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