To "kiddle" or "kiggle" meant to lean on the back two legs of a chair. I'm not aware of this action having a specific name anywhere other than in the Staffordshire dialect. Consequently, this word is still in use by my parents today, usually when telling one of my brothers to "stop kiddling on that chair, you'll fall over".
Again, the origin of this word is not clear but I have discovered that "kiggle-caggle" is a term used in the sport of curling to describe the rocking motion of a curling stone on the ice. It seems probable that the origin is the same.
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