Take a moment to define this for me - (update: added pictures)
Please? This is important.
I would like to ask the literary bunches of you this question:
What is the difference between “wriggle” and “wiggle”?!
I checked the meanings on dictionary.com and just not quite sure they mean 2 very different actions, or 2 similar yet different meanings? Or the same, as in, they are interchangeable?? You must pardon me, although I have spoken English for more than half of my life, English is still not my first language and it’s usually not the language that’s used when I have dreams.
Thanks for your input!
Update:
A thank you to all of you! I needed to know because of writing descriptions on these products. It’s a difficult task! Especially when there’s hundreds upon hundreds.
These toys will WIGGLE (sway from side to side). Not wriggle. Yes?
They also make the coolest clacking sounds that babies / toddlers love.
Vien Said,
August 29, 2007 @ 5:33 pm
Wriggle is like the wriggling motion of the worm. It’s the squirmy motion where the entire body motion is moved all over–side to side, up and down.
Wiggle is like the motion of moving side to side but in a fast pace. you know, just like the group Wiggles’ famous hand movement.
Amy T. Said,
August 29, 2007 @ 7:41 pm
When I think of “wriggling,” I think of wriggling OUT of something, like when my daughter would wriggle out of her swaddle blanket.
When I think of wiggling, I think of my former kindergarten students who couldn’t sit still.
Jenn Said,
August 29, 2007 @ 9:19 pm
Yea wriggle is often only used when you’re trying to get out of something. You wriggle out of your sweater.
Wiggle is a dance move!
SparklieSunShine Said,
August 30, 2007 @ 7:38 am
I was going to answer this, but it seems the others have done it for me.
Amie Said,
August 30, 2007 @ 5:52 pm
I agree, the other commenters have said what I was going to say.