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wiggle

/wig-uhl/US // ˈwɪg əl //UK // (ˈwɪɡəl) //

蠕动,扭动,蠕变,摇摆

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wig·gled, wig·gling.

    • : to move or go with short, quick, irregular movements from side to side: The puppies wiggled with delight.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    wig·gled, wig·gling.

    • : to cause to wiggle; move quickly and irregularly from side to side.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a wiggling movement or course.
    • : a wiggly line.
    • : a dish of creamed fish or shellfish and peas.

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Examples

  • The NFL has precious little wiggle room if more teams suffer outbreaks, but on a league level, so far it’s a navigable situation.

  • Thinner margins accompanied by relatively high rates of debt provide less wiggle room if the properties, or the economy, run into trouble.

  • Some camps say even the current rules provide some wiggle room and they might choose to open regardless of whether they’re changed.

  • Surprisingly, one was a wiggle to only one side of the cell.

  • A truly all-terrain rover on the moon or Mars may need to put a little wiggle in its walk.

  • Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle.

  • Why are we still listening to songs like “Wiggle” on the radio?

  • Many of us strike a happy medium, leaving enough wiggle room with reality to spin a good yarn.

  • And so his horizons slope, his power lines wiggle, his bridges curve.

  • Bound by teachings on same-sex marriage, yes, but there was apparently some wiggle room on the issue of marriage in general.

  • Oi know ye're there, fer Oi saw th' bushes wiggle a wee bit.

  • Hank, he's trying to look the other way, but that doctor won't let his eyes wiggle away from his'n.

  • The wiggle has to be three or four octaves above that before the nerves will have anything to do with it.

  • They wear yearning facial expressions; when they start to walk, they do not walk, but writhe and wiggle.

  • I hold that natur haz its laws and programmy, all the wa down, from the biling over ov a volkano tu the wiggle ov a lam's tale.