Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo wriggle.
From Middle English wriggen. Cognate with Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), German Low German wriggen (“to shake, shudder, rotate”), Dutch wrikken and wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Middle English wrikken (“to move back and forth”). Compare also Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go, move”).
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