ピクピク動うごく

expression, godan verb (-ku)

twitch; jerk; wiggle

Describes small, repeated, involuntary movements, often of body parts or objects. The mimetic ピクピク/ぴくぴく conveys light, quick twitching.

• まぶたがピクピク動うごく。

  My eyelid is twitching.

• 死しんだ魚さかなの尾おびれがまだピクピク動うごいていた。

  The dead fish's tail fin was still twitching.