wag
verb (used with object)
to move from side to side, forward and backward, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly.
Example Sentences
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The problem is that when he wrote well, you remembered his waggishness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2019
At the controversy’s peak, Peele tweeted simply, “It’s a documentary,” poking the beehive with characteristic waggishness.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2017
Though Spielberg and screenwriter Melissa Mathison—with the permission of the author’s estate—have somewhat expanded and changed Dahl’s story, The BFG honors the author’s whimsical, waggishness impropriety.
From Time ● May 16, 2016
Joviality and waggishness may not be traits you immediately associate with the Stalinist secret police.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2016
We are, in spite of my friend's waggishness, but two plain blunt countrymen, and have no more need of a valet than one of those poets which you have spoken of.
From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
