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Definition of jiggle in English: jiggleverb ˈdʒɪɡ(ə)lˈdʒɪɡəl [no object]1Move about quickly from side to side or up and down. the car jiggled on its springs Example sentencesExamples - The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn't the problem.
- This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
- ‘Come on’, he coaxes, with a devilish little grin while his fingers jiggle in your sides, ‘who's the best?’
- His leg jiggled involuntarily, and he clamped it.
- They walk away with a look of feigned understanding while I jiggle away, belly and double chin and all.
- Before the Jell-O started jiggling, though, the topic of a repeat was raised.
- By chance I found a cloud of fish-fry, thousands of transparent proto-fish all facing in the same direction, jiggling on the flow of the current.
- The first layer is ready when it is golden brown, or when it does not jiggle / move when you take it out of the oven.
- The door handle began to jiggle and Coran quickly reached out and gripped it to try to stop it from opening.
- Also, I suspect that nuns don't usually jiggle like that when they dance.
- There I am, pounding away on the streets, trying to train hard, but my breasts just keep jiggling all the time.
- One of the tunes is Gnat's favorite, or so I like to pretend; she does a little baby-dance when it comes on, jiggling up and down while I do a dance.
- Metro drivers spend the day jiggling in air-conditioned cabins, sitting on fold-down chairs small enough to persuade many to stand.
- Poor Aunt Barb didn't know the frequency, and so she jiggled in vain until someone heard her cries for help and came to the rescue.
- If only I can work out a way of securing it so it doesn't jiggle about, can I make a second plant out of it?
- So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
- If you looked very closely you could actually see Courtney's jowls and flabby chin jiggling violently when he went for the big notes.
- Looking up when the doorknob jiggled I panicked, jerking up and flushing the toilet quickly.
- Strong winds make it twist, jiggle and dance, hum, sing and scream like a banshee.
- I snorted back a giggle at the way the ring jiggled when he moved his eyebrow like that.
Synonyms fidget, wriggle, squirm, move restlessly informal have ants in one's pants - 1.1with object Shake (something) lightly up and down or from side to side.
he was jiggling his car keys in his hand Example sentencesExamples - She sits for a long time on the hood of her car, jiggling her heels against the bumper.
- To wash your hands you have to induce a flow of water by jiggling them about under the opening where the water is supposed to come out.
- After a warm-up, we learn how to shake our upper bodies while jiggling our hips, which is not an easy feat.
- A few hours later Greg came to find me outside, my hands jiggling the cigarette I was using to try and calm me down.
- He doesn't try to crawl into its packed depths; he just enjoys running his paw under the door and jiggling it open.
- But they're really jiggling the plug in the socket.
- Amber stood beside her jiggling her car keys, ‘Ri, you ready to go?’
- His hand wrapped carefully around the handle and jiggled it lightly.
- There are reminiscences of ‘Neily’ leaping about in his playpen, jiggling his diaper to a boogie-woogie 78.
- Ian jiggled the key desperately, glancing back at the fire exit.
- And he is consistently jiggling the chessboard slightly, so that the pieces are vibrating around.
- The vampire shook his arms, jiggling the shackles.
- She cocked her head to one side and jiggled the apple up and down a few times but I closed my eyes and tried to ignore her.
- He grasped the toast from the toaster, gently jiggling them in his little hands, as it was still a little hot.
- He jiggles the key in the lock on the front door, trying to persuade the tumblers to shift, which they finally do, reluctantly.
- ‘Thanks,’ she replied jiggling the keys in her hand.
- It took a moment to jiggle the badly-cut key in my door, but eventually I managed to open it.
- He would play with his lip ring, roll his pencil around on the desk, jiggle his knees and shake his head to the tune in his head.
- I just stood in the drizzle, jiggling my keys in my hand as I watched him peel out of the parking lot.
- She jiggled the key and finally, the knob turned.
Synonyms shake, jig, joggle, jog, waggle, wiggle jerk
nounˈdʒɪɡ(ə)lˈdʒɪɡəl A quick light shake. Example sentencesExamples - But beyond the jiggle, I don't see much else at work here that's worthy of note, or your precious nickel.
- When XFL broadcasters lost the courage of their convictions regarding jiggle, the football gods punished the enterprise with demise.
- It absorbed Cassie's delicate fingers as she released to a slight jiggle.
- You had to give the flagstick a jiggle before the ball would drop.
- My feet did a little jiggle to the music softly playing through the radio on my bedside table as I stared at the ceiling.
- What starts out as a quantum jiggle can amplify quickly.
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
- She gave them a jiggle and they trembled like kittens in a meat locker.
- But it's not all about putting the jiggle back in home improvement.
- We did that for several seconds, before I started a mad jiggle on the spot, moving around to face him as I did so.
- Mum gave us a jiggle of the legs to show us they are working.
- The coin in her pocket gave a small jiggle and a tiny voice said, ‘Master, you must.’
- The jiggle of the doorknob startled him and he reached for his sword.
- It is like being at a silent auction; a mere jiggle of the head fetches a waiter to freshen my drink.
- They wobbled a little as she bounced on her steps, then rested with a quick jiggle as she stopped.
- Last fall's dramatic-series surprise was Las Vegas, all jiggle and surveillance cameras, a rush we could count on.
- Viana delights the crowd with a wee jiggle before teeing up Shearer, who dribbles his shot straight at Buffon.
- Honestly, we could go on about Inferno's nifty fire effect, or Voldo's creepy, stationary strut, or even Taki's newfound jiggle.
- There was a jiggle of keys in the background; everyone stopped in their footsteps.
- A quick jiggle of his door showed that it was locked.
Derivatives adjective The chick who bid $801 was a jiggly young thing with ‘Bob Rocks!’ Example sentencesExamples - I wore a jiggly, C-cup gel-filled bra under Lycra stretch tops for a month.
- His skin was jiggly with water and he was a bit disoriented.
- She showed me how she cooked the rice, chopped the onions and cut to pieces the jiggly white tofu.
- And liquid CO2 has an unusual quality: It's very jumpy, almost jiggly.
Origin Mid 19th century: partly an alteration of joggle1, reinforced by jig. Rhymes giggle, higgle, niggle, sniggle, squiggle, wiggle, wriggle Definition of jiggle in US English: jiggleverbˈjiɡəlˈdʒɪɡəl [no object]1Move about lightly and quickly from side to side or up and down. his head jiggles up and down as he speaks Example sentencesExamples - One of the tunes is Gnat's favorite, or so I like to pretend; she does a little baby-dance when it comes on, jiggling up and down while I do a dance.
- If only I can work out a way of securing it so it doesn't jiggle about, can I make a second plant out of it?
- Strong winds make it twist, jiggle and dance, hum, sing and scream like a banshee.
- Before the Jell-O started jiggling, though, the topic of a repeat was raised.
- There I am, pounding away on the streets, trying to train hard, but my breasts just keep jiggling all the time.
- ‘Come on’, he coaxes, with a devilish little grin while his fingers jiggle in your sides, ‘who's the best?’
- The door handle began to jiggle and Coran quickly reached out and gripped it to try to stop it from opening.
- I snorted back a giggle at the way the ring jiggled when he moved his eyebrow like that.
- By chance I found a cloud of fish-fry, thousands of transparent proto-fish all facing in the same direction, jiggling on the flow of the current.
- Also, I suspect that nuns don't usually jiggle like that when they dance.
- Poor Aunt Barb didn't know the frequency, and so she jiggled in vain until someone heard her cries for help and came to the rescue.
- The first layer is ready when it is golden brown, or when it does not jiggle / move when you take it out of the oven.
- This time I don't feel that way so much, the wriggling and jiggling and tickling inside feels more like a reassurance that all is well.
- The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn't the problem.
- So the overall effect from some distance away was of a green thread that moved steadily, but jiggled and shook like a sensuous conga line.
- His leg jiggled involuntarily, and he clamped it.
- Looking up when the doorknob jiggled I panicked, jerking up and flushing the toilet quickly.
- They walk away with a look of feigned understanding while I jiggle away, belly and double chin and all.
- If you looked very closely you could actually see Courtney's jowls and flabby chin jiggling violently when he went for the big notes.
- Metro drivers spend the day jiggling in air-conditioned cabins, sitting on fold-down chairs small enough to persuade many to stand.
Synonyms fidget, wriggle, squirm, move restlessly - 1.1with object Shake (something) lightly up and down or from side to side.
he was jiggling his car keys in his hand Example sentencesExamples - I just stood in the drizzle, jiggling my keys in my hand as I watched him peel out of the parking lot.
- Amber stood beside her jiggling her car keys, ‘Ri, you ready to go?’
- But they're really jiggling the plug in the socket.
- He doesn't try to crawl into its packed depths; he just enjoys running his paw under the door and jiggling it open.
- There are reminiscences of ‘Neily’ leaping about in his playpen, jiggling his diaper to a boogie-woogie 78.
- ‘Thanks,’ she replied jiggling the keys in her hand.
- She jiggled the key and finally, the knob turned.
- The vampire shook his arms, jiggling the shackles.
- He jiggles the key in the lock on the front door, trying to persuade the tumblers to shift, which they finally do, reluctantly.
- She sits for a long time on the hood of her car, jiggling her heels against the bumper.
- She cocked her head to one side and jiggled the apple up and down a few times but I closed my eyes and tried to ignore her.
- To wash your hands you have to induce a flow of water by jiggling them about under the opening where the water is supposed to come out.
- And he is consistently jiggling the chessboard slightly, so that the pieces are vibrating around.
- He would play with his lip ring, roll his pencil around on the desk, jiggle his knees and shake his head to the tune in his head.
- After a warm-up, we learn how to shake our upper bodies while jiggling our hips, which is not an easy feat.
- Ian jiggled the key desperately, glancing back at the fire exit.
- He grasped the toast from the toaster, gently jiggling them in his little hands, as it was still a little hot.
- His hand wrapped carefully around the handle and jiggled it lightly.
- A few hours later Greg came to find me outside, my hands jiggling the cigarette I was using to try and calm me down.
- It took a moment to jiggle the badly-cut key in my door, but eventually I managed to open it.
Synonyms shake, jig, joggle, jog, waggle, wiggle
nounˈjiɡəlˈdʒɪɡəl A quick light shake. Example sentencesExamples - We did that for several seconds, before I started a mad jiggle on the spot, moving around to face him as I did so.
- There was a jiggle of keys in the background; everyone stopped in their footsteps.
- Honestly, we could go on about Inferno's nifty fire effect, or Voldo's creepy, stationary strut, or even Taki's newfound jiggle.
- The coin in her pocket gave a small jiggle and a tiny voice said, ‘Master, you must.’
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.
- Mum gave us a jiggle of the legs to show us they are working.
- It is like being at a silent auction; a mere jiggle of the head fetches a waiter to freshen my drink.
- You had to give the flagstick a jiggle before the ball would drop.
- They wobbled a little as she bounced on her steps, then rested with a quick jiggle as she stopped.
- She gave them a jiggle and they trembled like kittens in a meat locker.
- A quick jiggle of his door showed that it was locked.
- It absorbed Cassie's delicate fingers as she released to a slight jiggle.
- When XFL broadcasters lost the courage of their convictions regarding jiggle, the football gods punished the enterprise with demise.
- Last fall's dramatic-series surprise was Las Vegas, all jiggle and surveillance cameras, a rush we could count on.
- The jiggle of the doorknob startled him and he reached for his sword.
- My feet did a little jiggle to the music softly playing through the radio on my bedside table as I stared at the ceiling.
- But it's not all about putting the jiggle back in home improvement.
- But beyond the jiggle, I don't see much else at work here that's worthy of note, or your precious nickel.
- What starts out as a quantum jiggle can amplify quickly.
- Viana delights the crowd with a wee jiggle before teeing up Shearer, who dribbles his shot straight at Buffon.
Origin Mid 19th century: partly an alteration of joggle, reinforced by jig. |