wag, waggle, shake
(noun) causing to move repeatedly from side to side
wag, wit, card
(noun) a witty amusing person who makes jokes
wag, waggle
(verb) move from side to side; “The happy dog wagged his tail”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
WAG (plural WAGs)
(informal, business or military slang, US) A wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.
(informal) A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.
• AGW, AWG, GWA, Gaw, WGA, gaw
wag (third-person singular simple present wags, present participle wagging, simple past and past participle wagged)
To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; progress.
(obsolete) To go; to depart.
• (swing from side to side): nod, no
wag (plural wags)
An oscillating movement.
A witty person.
• AGW, AWG, GWA, Gaw, WGA, gaw
Source: Wiktionary
Wag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagging.] Etym: [OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. *136. See Weigh.]
Definition: To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Jer. xviii. 16.
Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery.
Wag, v. i.
1. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. Dryden.
2. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." Shak.
3. To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. Shak.
Wag, n. Etym: [From Wag, v.]
1. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.]
2. Etym: [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.]
Definition: A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. We wink at wags when they offend. Dryden. A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
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