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waggle

[ wag-uhl ]

verb (used without object)

, wag·gled, wag·gling.
  1. to wobble or shake, especially while in motion:

    The ball waggled slowly to a stop. The leaves of the tree waggled in the wind.



verb (used with object)

, wag·gled, wag·gling.
  1. to move up and down or from side to side in a short, rapid manner; wag:

    to waggle one's head.

  2. Golf. to make a waggle with (a golf club).

noun

  1. a waggling motion.
  2. Golf. a swinging movement made with a golf club to and fro over the ball prior to a stroke.

waggle

/ ˈwæɡəl /

verb

  1. to move or cause to move with a rapid shaking or wobbling motion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


noun

  1. a rapid shaking or wobbling motion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈwaggly, adjective
  • ˈwagglingly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • waggling·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of waggle1

First recorded in 1585–95; wag + -le
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Word History and Origins

Origin of waggle1

C16: frequentative of wag 1
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Example Sentences

In earlier research, Landgraf built a robot that could perform a waggle dance so convincing that other bees followed it—and, at least sometimes, flew in the direction the robot suggested.

Waggle your eyebrows at a girl, and she'll ask what's wrong with your eye.

He must hold himself ever in readiness to wiggle-waggle in the perpetual Simon-says-thumbs-up game which his crowd is playing.

They were twenty small red demons rather like Billy, and the same number of tiny skeletons, all with waggle-some hands and feet.

The men dance in a circle, stamping the time; the women waggle round and round the circle, outside it.

There he goes, round and round—and now he's asleep—and now he begins to reel—wiggle-waggle—-down he tumbles!

Away she darted a few steps, to whirl and point and waggle a finger at the dumfounded youth.

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