Definition of "waggle"

waggle

/ˈwaɡəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present waggles, present participle waggling, simple past and past participle waggled
1. (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
  Quotations
  The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.
  1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons
  Oscar turned to someone who wasn't there and waggled his head. "Hoo, boy," he said.
  1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction‎, page 56
2. (transitive, of the eyebrows) To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
3. (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
  Quotations
  I know you by the waggling of your head.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i]
  Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.
  1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […]
  The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip.
  1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small‎
noun
plural waggles
1. An instance of waggling.
2. A wobbling motion.
3. (golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Definition of "waggle"

waggle

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