waggle

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T-ts and ass but game mechanics are just waggle, alot of waggling instead of pressing buttons.

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  1. transitive verb To move (an attached part, for example) with short, quick motions: waggled her foot impatiently.
  2. intransitive verb To move shakily; wobble: waggled down the steps.
  3. noun A wobbling motion.

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  • Limited waggle, visuals that look good even by todays standards by a smart and beautiful art design. —  Latest from PALGN
  • But when this mechanic turns the game into a slow, brain dead waggle-fest, there's clearly some extremely faulty thinking at work here. —  Latest from PALGN
  • As Destructoid's most public fan of all things waggle, he argued that the game actually doesn't look terrible at all, going so far as to say its graphics are actually good. —  Destructoid
  • However the control is so bad it doesn't even deserve the term waggle. flail control maybe. —  Computer And Video Games
  • Castlevania franchise as a waggle-filled fighting game with subpar (even for Wii) graphics and shallow gameplay. —  Joystiq
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waggle:   waggled ·  waggling
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English wagelen, frequentative of waggen; see wag1.

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  1. = Dutch waggelen, totter, waver, = Danish vakle, shake, vacillate, = Middle High German wackeln, totter; freq. of wag. Another freq. form appears in wagger.
  2. from waggle, v.
 

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