Reverse Dictionary: WRIGGLE

ADJECTIVES
► EELY resembling an eel in movement; wriggling, writhing → 1871
► WRIGGLESOME wriggling → 1891

NOUNS
► SCRIGGLE ► SKRIGGLE a quick motion caused by tickling, a wriggle → 1904 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► SCRIGGLER a wriggling creature; an eel → 1895 Eng. dial.
► THROW a twist, a wrench, a sprain; the act of twisting or wriggling; a turn of the hand → 1785 Sc.
► WAMBLE  a totter, a quivering or shaking, a wriggle, a tumble; the act of wriggling → 1825 Sc. 

NOUNS – PERSON
► FRIGGER a person who wriggles around → 1659 obs.

PHRASES
► WRIGGLES LIKE A SNIG IN A BOTTLE said of a restless child → 1993 Eng. dial.

VERBS
► CRANGLE to twist, to writhe, to wriggle → 1608
► FIGGLE to fidget about, to wriggle → a1652 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► KELTER to wriggle, to move with an undulating motion; to move uneasily, as a queasy stomach → 1808 Sc.
► OAG to crawl, to creep, to scramble; to wriggle → 1892 Sc.
► OG to creep, to crawl, to wriggle; to move slowly; to be infected with vermin → a1838 Sc.
► RUTCH AROUND to wriggle, to squirm, to fidget → 1916 Amer. dial.
► SCRIGGLE ► SKRIGGLE to wriggle about; to struggle violently → 1896 Eng. dial.
► SCURRIFUNGE to wriggle about → 1894 perhaps Eng. dial.
► SPRINKLE to wriggle; to dart quickly → 1522 Sc.
► SWIGGLE to wriggle → 1837
► TWINE to contort the body; to writhe, to wriggle, to squirm → 1666 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TWINGLE to twist, to twine, to wriggle, to writhe → 1647
► WABBLE to wriggle about → 1928 Sc.
► WAMBLE to turn and twist the body about; to roll or wriggle about, to roll over and over → c1420 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► WAMBLE LIKE AN EEL IN THE WATER to wriggle and writhe → 1993 Sc.
► WAMPISH to wriggle, to twist or swerve about, like a fish swimming → 1824 Sc. obs.
► WAMPLE to wriggle; to writhe → 1825 Sc.
► WRABBLE to wriggle → 1513 obs. rare
► WRIG to wriggle, to writhe → 1854 Eng. dial. (Bk.)