He says that good hydration maintains the wiggliness of long hydrocarbon chains of lipids, or fats, in the stratum corneum.

Skylarks ticker-taping their song down on me, tangles of sheep's wool caught on bilberry stalks: everything was curly-wurly and Watkins's theory of straightness seemed like an affront to this natural wiggliness.

Mary Steenburgen's Lynda Dummer has a soft mouth and a tantalizing slender wiggliness, and she talks directly to whomever she's talking to - when she listens, she's the kind of woman a man wants to tell more to.

It has a fractal or Hausdorff dimension or 'wiggliness' of 1.25, which is comparatively high; the Australian coastline for example has a fractal dimension of 1.13, and that of South Africa is very smooth at 1.02.