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noun the act of wiggling
verb to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)
originFrom 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”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0