One small fast twist, repeated: side, side, side. The body keeps changing shape while it hardly travels at all. Because every movement is tiny, it is the way a worm, a fish or a restless child moves — and it is the only way anything gets through a gap that is too narrow to walk through.
From the word’s history
From wrig plus the frequentative ending -le, which marks a small action done over and over; related to Old English wrigian, 'to turn, to move, to go'. The shape of the word already says 'turning, again and again, a little at a time'.
由 wrig 加上字尾 -le 組成，-le 在英文裡標示「同一個小動作一直重複」；它跟古英文 wrigian（轉、動、去）有關。所以這個字的組成本身就寫著「一小下、一小下地轉」，正好就是它的核心畫面。
Wiktionary entry for wriggle, packet evidence kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:857684844 — etymology_text: 'From wrig + -le (frequentative suffix)… Related to Old English wrigian (to turn, wend, hie, go move).'
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