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单词 scriggle
释义

scrigglen.

Brit. /ˈskrɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈskrɪɡəl/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: scriggle v.
Etymology: < scriggle v.With sense 2a compare earlier squiggle v. and later squiggle n.2 With sense 2b compare slightly earlier squiggle n.2 and earlier scribble n.
1. A wriggling movement. Chiefly English regional (East Anglian). Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > [noun] > wriggling > an act of
wriggle1709
scriggle1832
squirm1839
1832 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae lxi, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 697 Unproductive of so much as the scriggle of a single tadpole.
1858 Bury & Norwich Post 5 Oct. I saw the rabbit give a ‘scriggle’ before Cobbold picked it up.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Scriggle, a quick motion caused by tickling, a wriggle.
2.
a. An irregular written or printed line or mark; a squiggle.In quot. 1967 with reference to musical notation.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [noun] > winding curve(s) > thing having > a line
serpenter1605
scribble1665
scriggle1873
striggle1906
squiggle1928
1873 Monthly Packet May 484 Mr. Talbot's firm round characters contrasted with the long-taily scriggle of certain German Gräfins.
1888 Wide Awake Oct. 285/2 She took a little ivory book out of her pocket,..an' she wrote, an' wrote, with a lot of scriggles an' jerks an' dashes.
1921 G. B. Shaw Let. in Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Mar. 178/2 How is the scrivener to tell whether these dots and dashes and scriggles and crosses..are meant for stops or not?
1967 Sunday Wichita Falls (Texas) Times 25 June (Features Mag.) 6/4 Needless to say my work is not priceless and the world will not shudder if I never find the lost scriggles.
1980 Courier-Index (Marianna, Arkansas) 27 Mar. 6 b/2 [He] explained the meaning of all those little scriggles..that appear on packaged grocery items.
b. A scribbly or scrawly piece of writing. Obsolete. rare.
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society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > a scribble or scrawl
scribblinga1555
scribble1577
scribblement1584
scrabble1842
scriggle1905
1905 Daily Chron. 18 Sept. 4/5 The last scriggle I had from him came on Friday night.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

scrigglev.

Brit. /ˈskrɪɡl/, U.S. /ˈskrɪɡəl/
Forms: 1600s 1800s– scriggle, 1800s skriggle (English regional (East Anglian)).
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative of a wriggling movement, probably modelled on struggle v. and wriggle v. Compare earlier scruggle v.
intransitive. To wriggle; to struggle to move or escape. Also with adverbs, as about, away, through, etc. English regional (chiefly East Anglian) or colloquial in later use.In quot. a1701 figurative: to alter one's position by means of false or devious arguments.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > writhing or twisting movement > writhe or twist [verb (intransitive)] > wriggle
wiggle?c1225
wriggle1495
wraggle?a1513
wrabble1513
sprinklea1522
wrig1599
squirm1691
scrigglea1701
wraxle1746
squiggle1816
wiggle-waggle1827
swiggle1837
scurrifunge1894
a1701 A. Bonifield Treacherous taken in Treachery 72 He may say what he will, and mean what he pleases, for who can find out the depth of his and such their politick and mental reserves, that can thus riggle and scriggle.
1806 R. Bloomfield Wild Flowers 47 They skriggl'd and began to scold, But laughing got the master.
1883 ‘C. E. L.’ Lily & her Brothers xvii. 171 You go scriggling away like an eel under the rushes before we can catch you.
1895 W. Rye Gloss. Words E. Anglia Skriggle, to wriggle or struggle away.
1922 E. F. Benson Miss Mapp ii. 40 Sometimes she would come out of the house, if the steps were very full,..and say, ever so coyly: ‘May I scriggle through?’
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 67 Look at that owd wurrum a-scrigglin'.
1991 Copeia No. 4. 1177/2 I gathered thousands of tiny hoptoads in cardboard boxes and watched them for hours as they scriggled about.

Derivatives

scriggler n. Obsolete rare a wriggling creature.In quot. with reference to eels.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > [noun] > that wriggles
wiggler1859
scriggler1895
1895 A. Patterson Man & Nature on Broads 51 Into it [sc. the eel-set] the scrigglers swim.
ˈscriggling adj. now rare (a) (of movement, a creature) wriggling; (b) (of handwriting, a line) scribbly.
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1808 Ann. Rev. 6 659/2 The eel-like scriggling movement of the animal.
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 355 A skrigglen eel.
1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 207 A person who writes a light, scratchy, irregular hand, is said to write a scriggling hand.
1981 Sandusky (Ohio) Sunday Reg. 14 June b3/1 A used refrigerator..filled with the scriggling meal worms his turtles love so much.
1982 Lang. Arts Jan. 36 Linear mock writing (scriggling lines from left to right which look like script).
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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