wag

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On the other end of this early morning chin-wag was my old friend and fellow cyclist, Ron Moronski.

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  1. intransitive verb To move briskly and repeatedly from side to side, to and fro, or up and down.
  2. intransitive verb To move rapidly in talking. Used of the tongue.
  3. intransitive verb To walk with a clumsy sway; waddle.

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  • On the other end of this early morning chin-wag was my old friend and fellow cyclist, Ron Moronski. —  CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
  • When leetil bird sit on a stone an shake hims tail, I've heerd you an Orley say it wag--but misser Gubbins he got no tail to wag--so how can he wag it I didn't say he wagged it, Betsy," returned Marie, repressing a laugh, "but--you'll never get to understand what a wag means, so I won't try to explain. —  The Madman and the Pirate
  • Our barn got touched once and a large splinter of a concussion shell which fell there was used as a weight for a wag-of-the-wall clock in the farmhouse. —  The Red Horizon
  • Ah wag, ah wag--I'll buss thee agen for that Miran. —  The Busie Body
  • Jack says Douglas is the one man in New York who can afford them Your friend Jack seems to be what they call a wag," I commented It isn't everybody that Douglas will let carry on with him like that. —  Sylvia's Marriage
 

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wag:   wags ·  Wag ·  wagged ·  wagging
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English waggen; see wegh- in Indo-European roots.
  2. Perhaps from wag1.

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  1. from Middle English waggen, from Old Swedish wagga, wag, fluctuate, rock (a cradle), Swedish vagga, rock (a cradle) (cf. Icelandic vagga = Old Swedish wagga, Swedish vagga, a cradle, = Danish vugge, a cradle, vugge, rock a cradle); a secondary form (parallel with Anglo-Saxon wagian, wag, later Middle English wawen (see waw) = Old High German wagōn, wecken, cause to move, = Gothic (Moesogothic) wagjan, gawagjan, make wag, stir, shake) of Anglo-Saxon wegan = Old High German wegan, move, = Gothic (Moesogothic) gawigan, shake up, cause to move: see weigh.
  2. Early modern English wagge; perhaps short for waghalter, formerly used humorously for ‘a rogue’ (cf. ‘a mad wag’ with ‘a mad waghalter’), from wag, with reference to moving the head playfully or derisively: see wag.
 

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