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WIGGLINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does wiggliness mean?
• WIGGLINESS (noun)
The noun WIGGLINESS has 1 sense:
1. a jerky back and forth kind of mobility
Familiarity information: WIGGLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A jerky back and forth kind of mobility
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
he walked with the wiggliness of a child on high heels
Hypernyms ("wiggliness" is a kind of...):
looseness; play (movement or space for movement)
Derivation:
wiggly (moving in a twisting or snake-like or wormlike fashion)
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