wriggle v.
SE in slang uses
In phrases
1. to act the toady.
![]() | Popular Dict. Aus. Sl. |
2. to be evasive.
![]() | Aus. Lang. 87: Here are a few more similes snatched from our environment: [...] to wriggle like a cut snake, often used figuratively. |
to have sexual intercourse.
[ | ![]() | She-Gallants I:1: Sir Toby. That's my little Lord Wagfan—That’s fine Mrs. Wrigglebum]. |
![]() | Satirist (London) 8 Jan. 13/2: The Paris wits are giggling, O! / At the niggling, figgling, wriggling, O! / [...] / While the good old dance is jiggling, O! | |
![]() | DSUE (1984) 1354/2: C.18–19. |
to leave.
![]() | (ref. to 1860) in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era. |