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Wiggle: Definition and part of speech

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Wiggle

  1. n. Act of wiggling; a wriggle.
  2. v. t. To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wight: Definition and part of speech

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Wight

  1. a. Swift; nimble; agile; strong and active.
  2. n. Weight.
  3. n. A whit; a bit; a jot.
  4. n. A supernatural being.
  5. n. A human being; a person, either male or female; — now used chiefly in irony or burlesque, or in humorous language.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Wigan: Definition and part of speech

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Wigan

  1. n. A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women’s dresses, etc.; — so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.