单词 | scriggle |
释义 | scrigglen.ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. DerivativesΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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