wriggle

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to twist your body, or move part of your body, with small, quick movements:

A large worm wriggled in the freshly dug earth.

Baby Martha was wriggling her toes in the sand.

to move somewhere using short, quick twisting movements:

The tunnel was low and dark, but she managed to wriggle through to the other side.

After twisting and turning for a while, he managed to wriggle free.

an act of wriggling:

With a wriggle, she managed to crawl through the gap.

to make small quick movements with the body, turning from side to side:

[ I ] Somehow he twisted himself about and wriggled free of Farkas’s grip and danced away.