Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - wriggle
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Wriggle
wriggle
~1 v 1 to twist from side to side with small quick movements (Stop wriggling and let me put your T-shirt on.) + under/through/into (The hole was just deep enough for the dog to wriggle under the fence.) 2 to make a part of your body move in this way - wriggly adj wriggle out of sth phr v to avoid doing something by using clever excuses ~2 n a wriggling movement
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(wriggles, wriggling, wriggled) 1. If you wriggle or wriggle part of your body, you twist and turn with quick movements, for example because you are uncomfortable. The babies are wriggling on their tummies... She pulled off her shoes and stockings and wriggled her toes. VERB: V, V n 2. If you wriggle somewhere, for example through a small gap, you move there by twisting and turning your body. He clutched the child tightly as she again tried to wriggle free... Bauman wriggled into the damp coverall. VERB: V adv/prep, V adv/prep ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. verb (~d; wriggling) Etymology: Middle English, from or akin to Middle Low German wriggeln to ~; akin to Old English wrigian to turn — more at wry Date: 15th century intransitive verb 1. to move the body or a bodily part to and fro with short writhing motions like a worm ; squirm 2. to move or advance by twisting and turning 3. to extricate or insinuate oneself or reach a goal as if by wriggling transitive verb 1. to cause to move in short quick contortions 2. to introduce, insinuate, or bring into a state or place by or as if by wriggling • wriggly adjective II. noun Date: 1709 1. a short or quick writhing motion or contortion 2. a formation or marking of sinuous design ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v. & n. --v. 1 intr. (of a worm etc.) twist or turn its body with short writhing movements. 2 intr. (of a person or animal) make wriggling motions. 3 tr. & intr. (foll. by along etc.) move or go in this way (wriggled into the corner; wriggled his hand into the hole). 4 tr. make (one's way) by wriggling. 5 intr. practise evasion. --n. an act of wriggling. Phrases and idioms wriggle out of colloq. avoid on a contrived pretext. Derivatives wriggler n. wriggly adj. Etymology: ME f. MLG wriggelen frequent. of wriggen ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) ихт. балтийская песчанка (Ammodytes tobianus) 2) изгибаться; извиваться (о черве) 3) пробираться ползком; ползти извиваясь ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. изгиб, извив 2. изгибание; выгибание (тела) 3. извиваться (о черве, змее); изгибаться; корчиться; дергаться 4. извивать, изгибать to wriggle the hips —- покачивать бедрами to wriggle the tail —- вилять хвостом 5. пробираться ползком 6. (into) втереться; примазаться (также to wriggle along) to wriggle into favour —- втереться в доверие to wriggle one's way (to (into) smth.) —- проникнуть, пробраться (куда-л.) to wriggle into office —- пробраться на какой-л. пост 7. (from, out of) ускользать, увиливать to wriggle out of a promise —- увильнуть от исполнения обещания to wriggle out of expressing an opinion —- увильнуть от высказывания своего мнения to wriggle out of a difficulty —- выпутаться из затруднительного положения ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun изгиб, извив 2. v. 1) извиваться (о черве и т.п.); изгибаться (тж. wriggle oneself) 2) пробираться, продвигаться вперед (тж. wriggle along) 3) втираться, примазываться; to wriggle into office - пробраться на какой-л. пост; to wriggle into favour - втереться в доверие 4) вилять, увиливать; to wriggle out of an engagement - уклоняться от обязательства; to wriggle out of a difficulty - выпутаться из затруднительного положения Syn: slither, squirm, wiggle, writhe ...Англо-русский словарь
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- 14c., from M.L.G. wrigglen "to wriggle." Perhaps related to O.E. wrigian "to turn, incline, go forward" (see wry). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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