Difference between Squirm and Wiggle

What is the difference between Squirm and Wiggle?

Squirm as a verb is to twist one's body with snakelike motions. while Wiggle as a verb is to move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; to shake or jiggle

Squirm

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To twist one's body with snakelike motions. To twist in discomfort, especially from shame or embarrassment. To evade (a question, an interviewer etc).

Wiggle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake or jiggle

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A wiggling movement

Example sentence: Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don't twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.

We hope you now know whether to use Squirm or Wiggle in your sentence.

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