wriggle英语原文释义、词形变化、词源和词汇关系

英文释义

名词 n.

A wriggling movement.

动词 v.

To twist one's body to and fro with short, writhing motions; to squirm. intransitive

— Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
To cause something to wriggle. transitive

— He was sitting on the lawn, wriggling his toes in the grass.
To use crooked or devious means. intransitive

词形变化

wriggles present,singular,third-person wriggling participle,present wriggled participle,past wriggled past wriggles plural

词汇关系

衍生词

wriggle out of wriggler wriggly

词源

词源 1

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).

词源 2

From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare Dutch wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”). Related to Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go move”), from Proto-Germanic *wrigōną (“to wriggle”).