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Definition of 'wag'English
Verb
To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail
* Shakespeare
- No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 16
- Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
(UK|Australia|slang) To play truant from school.
* 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii
- "My misfortunes all began in wagging,'' Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' ''wag''?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "''Wag,'' Sir. ''Wagging'' from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's ''wagging, Sir."
* 1901 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13
- They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
* Shakespeare
- "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags ."
(obsolete) To go; to depart.
* Shakespeare
- I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag .
Derived terms
* (to not go to school) play the wag; hop the wag; wag it
* to finger-wag
See also
* waggle (frequentative)
* wiggle
Noun
( en-noun)
An oscillating movement.
- The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
A witty person.
See also
* skivitis
References
* The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989) Accessed 23 Feb. 2006.
* Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.
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