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wiggle-waggle

adjective

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

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wiggle-waggle

intransitive verb \ " \

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

Origin and Etymology of wiggle-waggle

reduplication of 1wiggle

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wiggle-waggle

noun \ " \
variants: or 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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