wiggler

Plural: wigglers

Noun

• One that wiggles or moves restlessly.
• one who can't stay still (especially a child)
  • "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"
• larva of a mosquito
• terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
• Anything that wiggles.
• The larva of a mosquito.
• Anything that wiggles.
• An earthworm.
• Anything that wiggles.
• Any of several types of tool for center-finding or edge-finding in manufacturing, especially metalworking.
• Anything that wiggles.
• A magnet designed to make a beam of charged particles follow a curving path in an accelerator.

Examples

• After an hour of no good plays, he became a wiggler in his seat, eager for a high-scoring tile.

Synonyms

angleworm, crawler, dew worm, earthworm, fishing worm, fishworm, nightcrawler, nightwalker, red worm, squirmer, wriggler