wrig

From Middle English wriggen.

Cognate with Low German wriggeln (“to wriggle”), German Low German wriggen (“to shake, shudder, rotate”), Dutch wrikken and wriggelen (“to wriggle, squirm”), Middle English wrikken (“to move back and forth”). Compare also Old English wrigian (“to turn, wend, hie, go, move”).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪɡ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

wrig (third-person singular simple present wrigs, present participle wrigging, simple past and past participle wrigged)

1. (obsolete) To wriggle.
   • 1846, Douglas William Jerrold, The History of St. Giles and St. James:

     Pooh! the whole thing is as alive and wrigging as an angler's box of gentles

• wriggle

• “wrig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.