[
US
/ˈdʒɪɡəɫ/
]
[ UK /dʒˈɪɡəl/ ]
[ UK /dʒˈɪɡəl/ ]
VERB
-
move to and fro
Don't jiggle your finger while the nurse is putting on the bandage!
NOUN
- a slight irregular shaking motion
How To Use jiggle In A Sentence
- She jiggled with the lock.
- Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag. Singletrack World
- I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01
- 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?
- We burned you up (though you mentioned the River); the mother-bitch and I watched the old lamb jiggle you into a hole amid the sprawls of pachysandra. Not from the self but from the Other
- Molecules have a definite structure, but the electron bonds that hold the atoms together are not rigid: they jiggle and wiggle and twist and stretch.
- The shake was merely jiggled chocolate milk, sans ice cream.
- They walk away with a look of feigned understanding while I jiggle away, belly and double chin and all.
- The fat that jiggles when you move, on the hips, thighs and tummy, isn't the problem.
- I'm convinced that film has a soul, and for me it's the jiggle in the [projector] gate.