Thursday, November 27, 2008

Ww: Wriggles V.


Wriggles:
The second (form of time) squirms and wriggles like a blue fish in a bay.
From: p.23 of Alan Lightman's Einstein's Dreams a Novel

1.
To turn or twist the body with sinuous writhing motions; squirm.
2. To proceed with writhing motions.
3. To worm one's way into or out of a situation; insinuate or extricate oneself by sly or subtle means.
v.tr.
1. To move with a wriggling motion: wriggle a toe.
2. To make (one's way, for example) by or as if by wriggling: He wriggled his way into favor.
n.
1. A wriggling movement.
2. A sinuous path, line, or marking.

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