Define the word Waggle"Waggle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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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"Waggle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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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"Waggle" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
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.]
"waggle" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
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]
"waggle" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
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
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