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   wassailer
         n 1: someone who enjoys riotous drinking [syn: {wassailer},
               {carouser}]
         2: someone who proposes a toast; someone who drinks to the
            health of success of someone or some venture [syn: {toaster},
            {wassailer}]

English Dictionary: wiggler by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weasel word
n
  1. an equivocal qualification; a word used to avoid making an outright assertion
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
weasel-worded
adj
  1. evasively worded in order to avoid an unqualified statement
    Synonym(s): hedged, weasel-worded
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wiggle room
n
  1. flexibility of interpretation or of options; "the request left some wiggle room for future restructuring"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wiggler
n
  1. one who can't stay still (especially a child); "the toddler was a real wiggler on plane trips"
    Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler, squirmer
  2. larva of a mosquito
    Synonym(s): wiggler, wriggler
  3. terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
    Synonym(s): earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, nightcrawler, crawler, dew worm, red worm
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wassailer \Was"sail*er\, n.
      One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity,
      especially in drinking; a reveler.
  
               The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late
               wassailers.                                             --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Weakly \Weak"ly\, a. [Compar. {Weaklier}; superl. {Weakliest}.]
      Not strong of constitution; infirm; feeble; as, a weakly
      woman; a man of a weakly constitution.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wiggler \Wig"gler\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called
      also {wiggletail}.
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