riggle
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See also: Riggle
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɪɡəl
Etymology 1[edit]
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Noun[edit]
riggle (plural riggles)
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
riggle (third-person singular simple present riggles, present participle riggling, simple past and past participle riggled)
- Archaic form of wriggle.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- I must take care, knowing what an eеl I have to do with, that the little riggling rogue does not slip through my fingers
References[edit]
- “riggle”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.