1. 1彎彎曲曲的(線條);扭來扭去、坐不住的

    Describing a line or shape that is not straight but has lots of small curves in it — the kind of line a child draws for a snake or for water. It is the visual meaning you will meet most: 'a wiggly line', 'wiggly hair', 'wiggly noodles'. It also describes a thing or creature that will not keep still: 'a wiggly baby', 'wiggly worms'. The word feels light and , so it is at home in classrooms, picture books and family talk, and out of place in a technical report, where you would write 'wavy', 'irregular' or 'undulating' instead. Note the small spelling change: wiggle loses its final -e before -y, so it is wiggly, not 'wiggley'. English has a family of these playful -y words built the same way — , jiggly, wobbly, — and they all carry that same not-quite-serious feeling.

組成wiggle + -y. The -y ending makes an adjective meaning 'having that quality' or 'full of that'. The silent -e of wiggle drops out before it.

同家族的字

  • wigglethe verb it is built from
  • wobblysame -y pattern on wobble, with the same -e dropping
  • squigglysame -y pattern on squiggle; a squiggly line is a close cousin of a wiggly one

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wigglyadj/ˈwɪɡl̩i/

  • 1

    Constantly moving, especially with small, undirected movements.

    • It is not easy to get a diaper onto a wiggly little baby.
  • 2

    Of a line: made up of many curves.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary,已精簡格式;依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用,改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。