wiggle

Meanings

Verb

• To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.

Noun

• A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
• An alternating state or characteristic.

Origin

• From Middle English wiglen, probably from Middle Dutch wigelen ("to wiggle") and perhaps Middle Low German wigelen, frequentative of wiegen, from wiege. See wain, and Dutch wieg ("cradle").
• Cognate to Dutch wiggelen ("to wiggle").