Wiggle vs. Waggle: Know the Difference

To move back and forth with quick irregular motions

To move (an attached part, for example) with short, quick motions

To move or proceed with a twisting or turning motion; wriggle

To move shakily; wobble

To insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means

A wobbling motion.

To cause to move back and forth with quick irregular motions

(transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.

To make (one's way, for example) by or as if by wiggling

(intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

A wiggling movement or course.

A wobbling motion.

To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle.

(golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.

To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

(figurative) An alternating state or characteristic. en

To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

(in the plural) See wiggles.

A waggling or wagging;

To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.

Causing to move repeatedly from side to side

Act of wiggling; a wriggle.

Move from side to side;

The act of wiggling

Move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion

Move to and fro;