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wig·gler

(wĭg′lər)

1. One that wiggles, such as a worm or a restless child.

2. The larva of a mosquito.

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wig•gler

(ˈwɪg lər)

n.

1. a person or thing that wiggles.

2. wriggler (def. 2).

3. Southern U.S. an earthworm.

[1890–95]

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Noun	1.	wiggler - one who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips" squirmer, wriggler individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	2.	wiggler - larva of a mosquito wriggler Culicidae, family Culicidae - mosquitoes larva - the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
	3.	wiggler - terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, angleworm, crawler class Oligochaeta, Oligochaeta - earthworms oligochaete, oligochaete worm - hermaphroditic terrestrial and aquatic annelids having bristles borne singly along the length of the body

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