Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The larva of a mosquito.
- noun One that wriggles or squirms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which wriggles; specifically, one of the active larvæ, as of mosquitos, seen in stagnant water. Also
wiggler . - noun A person who practises wriggling methods; one who proceeds by sinuosity or trickery.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, wriggles.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
wriggles - noun The
larva of amosquito
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun larva of a mosquito
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
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Examples
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Clete flung a small spinner baited with a wriggler on the edge of the lily pads, his skin rosy in the waning light.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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But 'hulking back, perhaps I got the better of the bargain - she was a lissome little wriggler, and it was Kavanaugh's five rupees, after all.
Fiancée 2010
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Clete flung a small spinner baited with a wriggler on the edge of the lily pads, his skin rosy in the waning light.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Clete flung a small spinner baited with a wriggler on the edge of the lily pads, his skin rosy in the waning light.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Clete flung a small spinner baited with a wriggler on the edge of the lily pads, his skin rosy in the waning light.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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Research by Allegiant Global, an Indianapolis waste-logistics company that has worked closely with Subaru on its environmental goals, identified the Canadian red wriggler as the "thoroughbred champion" of composting worms because of its voracious appetite.
Greener and Cheaper Alan G. Robinson 2009
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Our librarian taught us how to do compost with red wriggler worms.
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Re-enacted here with narration by Mr. Wilson and the wriggler herself, the performance involved a sword which she whirled about before moving it provocatively below the man's belt.
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The realization that I had in the dark hours of the dawn was that she gets out of the swaddle because of the very problem that necessitates the swaddle - she's a wriggler.
Archive 2006-01-29 2006
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The realization that I had in the dark hours of the dawn was that she gets out of the swaddle because of the very problem that necessitates the swaddle - she's a wriggler.
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