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move from side to side "The happy dog wagged his tail" -
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causing to move repeatedly from side to side -
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a witty amusing person who makes jokes
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A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. "We wink at wags when they offend.", "A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse." -
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The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. -
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To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. "“Thus we may see,” quoth he, “how the world wags .”" -
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To go; to depart; to pack oft. "I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag ." -
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To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.☞Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. "No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.", "Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head." -
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To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. "The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more."
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To cause to move up and down, backward and forward, or from side to side, alternately, as a small body jointed or attached to, or connected with, a larger one; cause to move one way or another, as on a pivot or joint, or on or from something by which the body moved is supported; cause to shake, oscillate, or vibrate slightly. From the quick, jerky, or abrupt motion indicated by the word, an idea of playful, sportive, mocking, scornful, or derisive motion is associated with it in certain phrases: as, to wag the head or the finger. -
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To nudge. -
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To move backward and forward, up and down, or from side to side, alternately, as if connected with a larger body by a joint. pivot, or any flexible or loose attachment; oscillate; sway or swing; vibrate: an arrow is said to wag when it vibrates in the air. -
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To be in motion or action; make progress; continue a course or career; stir. -
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To move on or away; be off; depart; pack off; be gone. -
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The act of wagging; a shake; an oscillation. -
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One who is given to joking or jesting; a witty or humorous person; one full of sport and humor; a droll fellow. The word seems formerly to have been applied to a person who indulged in coarse, low, or broad humor, or buffoonery, as a practical joker. -
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A fellow: used with a shade of meaning sometimes slurring, sometimes affectionate, but without any attribution of humor or pleasantry.
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wag to move from side to side: to shake to and fro: : -
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wag′ging; pa.t. and pa.p. wagged -
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a shaking, moving to and fro -
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wag a droll, mischievous fellow: a man full of sport and humour: a wit: a fellow generally -
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wag (coll.) to depart -
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wag (Shak.) to move on, make progress
Wag the dog - To 'wag the dog' means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser-significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention to what was originally the more important issue.The expression comes from the saying that 'a dog is smarter than its tail', but if the tail were smarter, then the tail would 'wag the dog'. The expression 'wag the dog' was elaborately used as theme of the movie. 'Wag the Dog', a 1997 film starring Robert de Niro and Dustin Hoffman, produced and directed by Barry Levinson.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. waggen,; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga, to rock a cradle, vagga, cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge,; akin to AS. wagian, to move, wag, wegan, to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen, to move, and E. weigh,. √136. See Weigh
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Referred by Skeat to Old Sw. wagga, to wag (Ice. vagga, a cradle); allied to A.S. wagian, to wag, Old High Ger. wagōn, to shake, A.S. wegan, to carry, move.
Titans' rookie has tongues wagging , chooses not to listen. nashvillecitypaper.com
When they have negative feelings, their tail wagging is biased to the left. ohio.com
Wag- Aero receives FAA nod for Taylorcraft replacement parts. generalaviationnews.com
The US Tail Wags the Italian Dog. motortrend.com
Wagging, Gagging and Bagging . taq.com
WAG's positive results just shy of consensus. drugstorenews.com
Israel assault on Gaza, rising death tolls, Egypt's Morsi will not be wagged. ashingtonpost.com
?ne Trempe performs at the WAG on Sunday. innipegfreepress.com
Eyes light up, tongues roll out, and tails – if they had them – would wag. thenewstribune.com
TR&HC Any & All Dog Show , a tail-wagging event. tryondailybulletin.com
Friday Wine & Wag Happy Hour. baltimoremagazine.net
Bob for hot dogs and enjoy complimentary hors d'oeuvres at the Maryland SPCA's first Wine & Wag Happy Hour of the season. baltimoremagazine.net
WAG brainstorms public spaces. jamaicaplaingazette.com
FOREST HILLS—The Working Advisory Group ( WAG ) for the Casey Overpass replacement project has started brainstorming the pedestrian areas surrounding the future overpass replacement. jamaicaplaingazette.com
) and all discussion of the president's sex scandal disappears from view -- or, as Brean would have it, the "tail" of manufactured crisis wags the "dog" of national politics. motherjones.com
Since Aξ = 1, we have wu = wAg(ξ )(u), which implies that Ag(ξ )(u) = u.
On a free group of transformations defined by an automaton
It always leads to fine-tuning paradoxes, with the tail wagging the dog.
How Galaxies Don't Form
Most of other modes falling in the energy range of our NIS measurement are one of the twisting, stretching, breathing, bending and wagging motions of the benzene rings.
Lattice Dynamics of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Neutron Inelastic Scattering and First-Principles Calculations
Wyższa natomiast powsta je poprzez sumowanie wszystkich węzłów z uwzględnieniem wag Pi , z jakimi węzły te występuj
Self-Organizing Mixture Networks for Representation of Grayscale Digital Images
He'll wag as the bush wags. "The Proverbs of Scotland" by
What outrages him is to make him stop wagging his tongue. "This Simian World" by
Musq'oosis's head still wagged. "The Huntress" by
The boys no longer talked in whispers; their tongues were wagging loudly. "The Hero of Garside School" by
Toto wagged his tail vigorously. "The Road to Oz" by
Culpepper wagged his head from side to side. "Privy Seal" by
He beckoned to the little dog, and when it came up to him, wagged his finger at it. "The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories" by
Rover looked up and wagged his tail. "Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm" by
THE wig wag contest had furnished enough excitement at Sea Crest to constitute a nine day's wonder. "The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest" by
Kaiser seemed warm in his thick coat of black hair, and wagged his tail like a good fellow. "Track's End" by
In your place, would bake:
If its head went wag as yours does,
O how it would ache!
The warl’ like an eemis stane
Wags i’ the lift;
An’ my eerie memories fa’
Like a yowdendrift.
O' the wag-at-the-wa' whan ringin' the time,
At twa in the mornin'—O horror an' wae!
To think she had broken the blest Sabbath-day!
Where the winged wag doth hover,
Shall to-night receive a kiss,
How or where herself would wish:
But who brings him to his mother,
Shall have that kiss, and another.
Again at eve there would be news to tell;
Who passed should hear them chant it o’er and o’er,
Gossip, how wags the world?’ ‘Well, gossip, well.’”
Gesetzt, dass unser Schiff zerbricht,
So muessen wir ins Wasser sinken,
Und Wasser wohl gezwungen trinken.
Und Wasser, Wasser schmecket schlecht.
Hab ich nicht recht?