wag

  • 31wag — 1. v. & n. v. (wagged, wagging) 1 tr. & intr. shake or wave rapidly or energetically to and fro. 2 intr. archaic (of the world, times, etc.) go along with varied fortune or characteristics. n. a single wagging motion (with a wag of his tail).… …

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  • 32Wag's — Infobox Defunct Company company name = Wag s company slogan = fate = dissolved successor = foundation = 1970s defunct = 1991 location = Deerfield, Illinois, United States industry = Casual dining restaurant chain key people = products = num… …

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  • 33wag — wag1 [wæg] v past tense and past participle wagged present participle wagging [Date: 1200 1300; : Old English; Origin: wagian to shake ] 1.) [I and T] if a dog wags its tail, or if its tail wags, the dog moves its tail many times from one side to …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 34wag — vb Australian to play truant. A variant of the older British form hop the wag , in which the wag in question is a shortening of wag gon. ► And don t you go wagging school this af ternoon either 1 might be bringing Frank round. (Richmond Hill,… …

    Contemporary slang

  • 35wag —    This word now refers to a joker, or a clever and amusing talker. Until the seventeenth century it was a term applied to a mischievous boy as an endearment, especially by his mother. Falstaff calls Prince Hal ‘sweet wag’ in Henry the Fourth… …

    A dictionary of epithets and terms of address

  • 36wag — See: TONGUES TO WAG or TONGUES WAG …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 37wag — See: TONGUES TO WAG or TONGUES WAG …

    Dictionary of American idioms

  • 38wag — verb ADVERB ▪ furiously ▪ The dog raced ahead, its tail wagging furiously. ▪ happily Wag is used with these nouns as the subject: ↑tail, ↑tongue Wag is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 39wag — wag1 [ wæg ] verb intransitive or transitive 1. ) if a dog wags its tail, it moves its tail from one side to the other several times 2. ) if a person wags a finger or their head, they shake it several times => TAIL1, TONGUE1 wag wag 2 [ wæg ]… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 40wag — [13] Wag was derived from the Middle English descendant of Old English wagian ‘totter’, a word related to English wave of the sea. Waggle [15] was based on it. The noun wag ‘comical fellow’, first recorded in the 16th century, is generally taken… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins