Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that wiggles, such as a worm or a restless child.
- noun The larva of a mosquito.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larva of a mosquito. Same as
wriggler , 1, and wiggletail. - noun One who or that which wriggles.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also
wiggletail .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Anything that
wiggles . - noun The
larva of amosquito . - noun southern US An
earthworm . - noun physics A
magnet designed to make abeam ofcharged particles follow a curving path in aaccelerator .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun larva of a mosquito
- noun terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- noun one who can't stay still (especially a child)
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word wiggler.
Examples
-
Immediately a two-page footnote explains that David Wallace had "already left the Internal Revenue Service in 1987," that his job was "a rote examiner, aka a 'wiggler' in the Service nomenclature," and that his "civil service rank was a GS-9."
A Cure for Head-Exploding Brilliance James Campbell 2011
-
It took them, he told [the] [his] attentive audience, about three days to hatch; the larva stage lasted about a week; and the pupa, usually called the "wiggler," lasted to more days.
Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943
-
Well, TP wanted to post 1 more, but I advised them against running a thread all about you, wiggler ….
-
So enliven a gardener's world with a 1,000-count box of live red wiggler composting worms from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm.
Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living Avital Binshtock 2011
-
From your split shot ... drop 12 inches of 2X, tie on a wiggler or a bloack leech, or a black bugger, attach another foot of 2X to the hook shank, then tie on a glo bug (egg) blue is good, but for where you live, peach or cream or a combo of both is better.
-
My friend Christian, who famously composts his own (bigger) dogs 'poop, clued me into the importance of red wiggler worms, so I decided to go to nearby Buena Vista Park to dig for some.
Boing Boing 2009
-
So enliven a gardener's world with a 1,000-count box of live red wiggler composting worms from Uncle Jim's Worm Farm.
Avital Binshtock: Gifts That Keep on Living Avital Binshtock 2011
-
Have to say that nothing works better for brook trout than a nice red wiggler on a small hook.
-
Huh! And as for the wiggler who said, I think his name is NOT SURE, he said,
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Not Over When it’s Over 2010
-
Have to say that nothing works better for brook trout than a nice red wiggler on a small hook.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.