wiggle–waggle
Definition of wiggle–waggle
: indecisive vacillating has gone wiggle-waggle and cannot be persuaded to be categorical — Lionel Hale
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Origin and Etymology of wiggle–waggle
reduplication of 1wiggle
wiggle–waggle
Definition of wiggle–waggle
: to move jerkily back and forth : wiggle and waggle from one thing to another : vacillate wiggle-waggles between appeals for charity and responsible state action — Nation
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Origin and Etymology of wiggle–waggle
reduplication of 1wiggle
wiggle–waggle
wiggle–woggle
Definition of wiggle–waggle
: something (as an amusement park contrivance) that wiggle-waggles flip-flaps, switchbacks, wiggle-woggles — Rose Macaulay
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