"wigglesome" meaning in English

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          "text": "\"She's as wigglesome and unsettled as ever a sailor on land, or a fish out of the sea,\" said Granny, […]",
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          "text": "No 'm; Baby Palmer 's so squirmy and wigglesome!",
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          "text": "Our children are unusually wigglesome—something, anything to quiet them, and we deal out toothpicks, shoe pegs, or something equally as foolish, hoping that quiet will again be restored, forgetting that we are only amusing, or soothing our little friends, when we might be giving them pleasant seat work, that would make the thought of some previous lesson more fully alive in their little minds.",
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          "text": "Of course I helped you, you wigglesome clunker!",
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          "ref": "2016 November, David Weber, chapter 6, in Shadow of Victory, Riverdale, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, page 63",
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