Synonyms of the word wiggle


WIGGLEAGITATE - JIGGLE - JOGGLE - MOTILITY - MOTION - MOVE - MOVEMENT - SHAKE - SQUIRM - WRIGGLE

wiggle

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake…
  • n. A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
  • n. (figuratively) An alternating state or characteristic.
  • n. (in the plural) See wiggles.

agitate

  • v. (transitive) To cause to move with a violent, irregular action.
  • v. (intransitive, rare) To move or actuate.
  • v. (transitive) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb.
  • v. (transitive) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate.
  • v. (transitive) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot.

jiggle

  • n. a weak, shaking movement.
  • v. (transitive) To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake, rattle, or wiggle.

joggle

  • v. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle;…
  • v. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  • v. To jog or run while juggling.
  • v. (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely,…
  • n. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
  • n. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.

motility

  • n. (uncountable) The state of being motile.
  • n. (countable) The degree to which something is motile.

motion

  • n. (uncountable) A state of progression from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A change of position with respect to time.
  • n. (physics) A change from one place to another.
  • n. (countable) A parliamentary action to propose something.
  • n. (obsolete) An entertainment or show, especially a puppet show.
  • n. (philosophy) from κίνησις; any change. Traditionally of four types: generation and corruption, alteration,…
  • n. Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
  • n. (law) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or…
  • n. (euphemistic) A movement of the bowels; the product of such movement.
  • n. (music) Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts. (Conjunct…
  • n. (obsolete) A puppet, or puppet show.
  • v. To gesture indicating a desired movement.
  • v. (proscribed) To introduce a motion in parliamentary procedure.
  • v. To make a proposal; to offer plans.

move

  • v. (intransitive) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to…
  • v. (intransitive) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act.
  • v. (intransitive) To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and…
  • v. (intransitive, chess, and other games) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of…
  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry,…
  • v. (transitive, chess) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the…
  • v. (transitive) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion,…
  • v. (transitive) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion,…
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To mention; to raise (a question); to suggest (a course of action); to lodge (a…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To incite, urge (someone to do something); to solicit (someone for or of an issue);…
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To apply to, as for aid.
  • v. (law, transitive, intransitive) To request an action from the court.
  • n. The act of moving; a movement.
  • n. An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
  • n. A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand…
  • n. The event of changing one's residence.
  • n. A change in strategy.
  • n. A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
  • n. (board games) The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules…

movement

  • n. Physical motion between points in space.
  • n. (engineering) A system or mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming…
  • n. The impression of motion in an artwork, painting, novel etc.
  • n. A trend in various fields or social categories, a group of people with a common ideology who try together…
  • n. (music) A large division of a larger composition.
  • n. (aviation) An instance of an aircraft taking off or landing.
  • n. (baseball) The deviation of a pitch from ballistic flight.
  • n. An act of emptying the bowels.
  • n. (obsolete) Motion of the mind or feelings; emotion.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

squirm

  • v. To twist one’s body with snakelike motions.
  • v. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment.
  • v. To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).
  • v. (figuratively) To move in a slow, irregular motion.
  • n. A twisting, snakelike movement of the body.

wriggle

  • v. (intransitive) To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to or make something wriggle.
  • n. A wriggling movement.

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