Talk:unwriggle

RFV
It is rare, and I don't think it usually means what is given here. Consider: "unwriggled his stone feet, and stood up"; "You rip off that golden paper and unwriggle the wire" (okay); "he unwriggled from the small car" (intransitive, to exit by wriggling); "Swish curtains or unwriggled forefront of rich opacity" (adjective, perhaps meaning "unwrinkled"); "her white, unwriggling bum looked plumply impervious", "curls a satisfied smile around its unwriggling mouthful" (adjective, not wriggling). Nothing for "unwriggles". Equinox ◑ 11:27, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Two positive hits for the sense we have are and (figuratively) . Another is the golden-paper one you mention, Equinox. That's three, though I'm too tired to want to bother formatting them at the moment. &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 11:36, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
 * OK, I'm now defending my new article. Are these ones OK? Although, I'm not sure what the situation is in number 2. Old Bill Swyer's been coiled up in a serpent for a long time? It seems fanciful to me. --Mat200 11:43, 29 June 2010 (UTC)


 * 1) * 1987, Henrietta Garnett, Family skeletons:
 * You rip off that golden paper and unwriggle the wire. Then push up the cork with your thumbs and give it a little twist and try not to let it go off.
 * 1) * 1988, Thomas Hardy Society, The Thomas Hardy journal:
 * we been a-trying to unwriggle old Bill Swyer from his serpent now for many a year.
 * 1) * 2001, alt.drugs.psychedelics, Counting Comets:
 * He was actually almost unwriggled when we came to finally untie him. He was beating us up alot before this.


 * RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 19:08, 23 June 2011 (UTC)