Waggle

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Waggle \Wag"gle\, v. i. [Freq. of wag; cf. D. waggelen, G.
     wackeln.]
     To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a
     wagging motion; to waddle.
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           Why do you go nodding and waggling so?   --L'Estrange.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Waggle \Wag"gle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Waggled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Waggling}.]
     To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird
     waggles his tail.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Waggle \Wag"gle\, n.
     A waggling or wagging; specif. (Golf), the preliminary
     swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the
     line of the proposed stroke.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  waggle
       n : causing to move repeatedly from side to side [syn: {wag}, {shake}]
       v 1: move from side to side; "The happy dog wagged his tail"
            [syn: {wag}]
       2: move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion [syn: {wamble}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  38 Moby Thesaurus words for "waggle":
     beat, bob, bobble, careen, coggle, dangle, fluctuate, flutter,
     lash, librate, lurch, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, reel,
     resonate, rock, roll, shake, squirm, swag, sway, swing, swinging,
     switch, toss, twist and turn, vacillate, vibrate, waddle, wag,
     wave, waver, wiggle, wobble, wriggle, writhe