wag

nounperson who is very funny
verbwiggle back and forth

Synonyms for wag

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Word Origin & History

early 13c., "waver, vacillate, lack steadfastness," probably from a Scandinavian source (cf. Old Norse vagga "a cradle," Danish vugge "rock a cradle," Old Swedish wagga "fluctuate"), and in part from Old English wagian "move backwards and forwards;" all from Proto-Germanic *wagojanan (cf. Old High German weggen, Gothic wagjan "to wag"), probably from PIE root *wegh- "to move about" (see weigh). Meaning "to move back and forth or up and down" is from c.1300. Wagtail is attested from c.1500 as a kind of small bird (late 12c. as a surname); 18c. as "a harlot," but seems to be implied much earlier:

Wag-at-the-wall (1825) was an old name for a hanging clock with pendulum and weights exposed.

Example Sentences forwag

Let them be what they might, the pendulum should wag, and have a fair chance of doing its best.

The hunger that possessed her made her wag her head as if senile.

He had only a stump of a tail, but he will wag it—when next his master sees him!

Say it to your dogs, however, and see if they do not wag their tails.

If he wag his tail, then will I sing; if he do not wag his tail, then—then will I not be silent.

This went on for months, and in that solitude no idle tongue was set to wag.

But if my tongue is not to wag, whatever shall I do to earn my dinner?

His stub of a tail jerked spasmodically, in its struggle to wag.

Both talked at once, and as fast as their tongues could wag.

Some wag of the mess had said something jocular; to a man they were laughing convulsively.

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