(v. i.) To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ferguson's selection of the "chosen one" now looks less like John the Baptist heralding Christ and more like what I would do if invited to select my ex's next partner; the mendacious dispatch of a castrated chump to grimly jiggle with futile pumps upon Man United's bone-dry, trophy-bare mound.
(2) Having your pot belly jiggled at any age isn't nice.
(3) An improvement from group 1 to group 2 was noticed in both methods (P less than 0.01), but from group 2 to 3 there was improvement only in the method where jiggling was allowed (P less than 0.01).
(4) Hidden from the waist down beneath the stage, he wears a vast tail coat, and jiggles puppet-like pin-striped legs with his arms while a hidden actor operates small hands from behind.
(5) His supersize cross jiggling gently on his chest, he said the figures showed the bank's capital had been wiped out, "the very definition of failure".
(6) State finances will be jiggled so that money goes to where it is thought good for growth, such as infrastructure spending.
(7) And while it's true that gridiron jocks can't seem to perform unless interrupted every 10 seconds by schmaltzy corporations peddling their wares, brass bands booming across the pitch and cheerleaders wiggling and jiggling like wind-up titillators, it's also true that American spectators do at least get what they're promised - it may take five hours but eventually they will see 60 minutes of football.
(8) in which he bobs towards his fiancee across the Aegean, astride a jet-ski, half naked but without a hint of torso jiggle.
(9) 3.24am GMT 56 mins At the other lend of the field Velasquez wriggles and twists and prods and jiggles in the box.
(10) Oddly, given that the design dated to the order's birth at the height of the first world war, it looked rather Teutonic, as if it might have been happy jiggling up and down on the chest of a Prussian general.
(11) An electronic adaptation of an old one, the Jiggle cage, is described.
(12) In each dog, a device was installed in the lower left jaw quadrant to expose the third premolar (P3) to jiggling forces which would enhance the mobility of this "test" tooth.
(13) Experiments have been performed in beagle dogs in attempts to evaluate the effect of orthodontic- and jiggling-type trauma on the supporting structures of premolars.
(14) In the presence of jiggling forces, traumatic occlusion can provoke a progressive mobility, and in certain cases, accelerate the periodontal destruction in presence of periodontitis.
(15) Also, the protein molecules, as a whole, jiggle in the lattice with r.m.s.
(16) R takes his free arm, the one that is not jiggling the other boy up and down like a farmer on his horse, and he takes my hand and squeezes it.
(17) Quantitative measurement of motor activity during such clamp-induced immobility was made by placing the rats in a jiggle cage.
(18) Lanzini then ambushed Claudio Yacob in midfield, jiggled forward and nearly bamboozled the goalkeeper from 25 yards, but Boaz Myhill managed to improvise a save with his feet.
(19) Each surgeon was asked to aim a needle at an exit point using two methods: 'jiggling' (readjustment of the needle in aiming at the target) allowed and jiggling not allowed.
(20) Extrusion, but especially jiggling and a long treatment period were found to be significantly more frequent in the group exhibiting resorption than in the control group.
Niggle
Definition:
(v. t.) To trifle with; to deceive; to mock.
(v. t.) To trifle or play.
(v. t.) To act or walk mincingly.
(v. t.) To fret and snarl about trifles.
Example Sentences:
(1) But I also feel a niggling strain of jealousy, even resentment, that it wasn't as easy for me the first time around as it is today for many people.
(2) But there was always a niggling suspicion that the fun couldn’t last – that Tempelhof’s unique status as a hugely valuable piece of land essentially given over to the average picnicking Berliner was too good to be true.
(3) Others face more niggling problems: in a recent post on the local Facebook group “Eliminate All Stray Dogs”, one resident claimed an unruly pack kept jumping on his car, destroying its windscreen wipers.
(4) I first saw the ad this weekend, and it's been niggling away at me ever since.
(5) Mauro Zárate has been ruled out for two weeks after injuring a hamstring, Enner Valencia will not return until October at the earliest after he suffered a serious knee injury last month and Andy Carroll’s comeback from the knee problem that has kept him out since February has been put back by a week after a niggle in training on Thursday.
(6) Ben Flower tested that theory to the limit with his attack on an initially niggling but ultimately defenceless Lance Hohaia which ensured that the 17th Super League Grand Final made a greater national and international impact than any of the previous 16.
(7) It is a troubling question that niggles away throughout our visit.
(8) Women who do have doubts or niggles are on the other side before they have a chance to think it through.
(9) This will unload the skeleton and give joints the chance to rest and recover, especially if one is prone to niggles or has a history of injuries – and you would probably therefore get more out of the long runs when you do undertake them."
(10) The niggling question Back to that niggling question: why intervene?
(11) Martínez said: “We gave all the players three penalties in training yesterday and if they scored all three then we said they could be back-up to Rom in the games, Ross did, so we said he could in the game.But he didn’t take a Panenka [in training] – he wasn’t allowed!”The Everton manager confirmed John Stones was omitted due to a “niggle” in his hamstring and is expected to be rested for a week to 10 days.
(12) Mayor Boris Johnson, whose default setting has been relentless and sometimes improbable cheerleading in the face of serious concerns and minor niggles, promised with typical restraint that as the flame "spreads through the city its radiance will dispel any last clouds of dankness and anxiety that may hover over some parts of the media".
(13) On the other hand, have niggles surfaced from continued use that weren't obvious before?
(14) I see all kinds of parents making huge efforts to ensure their children are happy, but niggling away in the back of their minds is the disturbing thought that they must prepare their children for lives which could be much harder than their own.
(15) Same-sex marriage ruling's ripple effect – historic celebrations of love Read more Almost immediately after the supreme court on Friday made same-sex marriage a right throughout the United States , conservative leaders around the south indicated they would resist the ruling with delay, bureaucratic niggling and circumvention of the verdict on religious grounds.
(16) But, as you brace yourself to elbow your way back through Heathrow terminal 3, you harbour niggling prelapsarian feelings about what you've just left behind.
(17) During saturation decompression there were 6 treated bends and 33 reported niggles.
(18) That would be a staggering achievement given she missed winter training, has had continuing achilles niggles and does not expect to be near her best for another 12 months.
(19) The niggling caveat, however, is the proliferation of known unknowns.
(20) Or, indeed, all the niggling setbacks suffered over the week which meant the 18-man match day squad included every outfield senior player available.