wigglesome
/ˈwɪɡ(ə)lˌsəm/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""She's as wigglesome and unsettled as ever a sailor on land, or a fish out of the sea," said Granny, […]"
- "No 'm; Baby Palmer 's so squirmy and wigglesome!"
- "Our children are unusually wigglesome—something, anything to quiet them, and we deal out toothpicks, shoe pegs, or something equally as foolish, hoping that quiet will again be restored, forgetting that we are only amusing, or soothing our little friends, when we might be giving them pleasant seat work, that would make the thought of some previous lesson more fully alive in their little minds."
- "I wonder what she will say when she sees a certain pink parasol that I saw in that box, and a white sash with pink rosebuds on it, and slippers that I'm sure wouldn't fit anything else in the house but her own wigglesome little feet."
- "Of course I helped you, you wigglesome clunker!"
- "You would think that the problem with painting children is that they are so wigglesome you cannot take a likeness, but the real problem is that they don't have much in the way of features except big eyes and foreheads and round cheeks."
Etymology
From wiggle + -some (suffix denoting things characterized by specific conditions or qualities, usually to a considerable degree).
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈwɪɡ(ə)lˌsəm/
- British English: /ˈwɪɡl̩səm/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more wigglesome (comparative)
most wigglesome (superlative)