Talk:unwriggle

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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 [1] and (figuratively) [2]. 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.​—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.

   • 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.

   • 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)