wiggle-waggle

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adjective

: indecisive, vacillating

has gone wiggle-waggle and cannot be persuaded to be categorical

—Lionel Hale

wiggle-waggle

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intransitive verb

"

: 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

wiggle-waggle

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noun

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variants or wiggle-woggle

¦⸗⸗¦⸗⸗

: something (as an amusement park contrivance) that wiggle-waggles

flip-flaps, switchbacks, wiggle-woggles

—Rose Macaulay

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

reduplication of wiggle entry 1

Intransitive verb

reduplication of wiggle entry 1

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