Wag

Quick meaning: Wag is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.

Meaning

(ambitransitive) To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.

More Meanings

1. (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To play truant from school.
2. (intransitive, chiefly obsolete) To go; to proceed; to move; to progress.
3. To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To leave; to depart.
5. (intransitive, cricket, slang) Of the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.
6. An oscillating movement.
7. A witty person.

Example Sentences

No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.

"Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

She's a real gossip: her tongue is always wagging.

Carrados wagged his head in good-humoured resignation.

Word Forms

• wags
• wagging
• wagged

Synonyms for wag

Depending on context, synonyms include shake, waggle, card, wit.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include waggle, shake, wit, card, stir, agitate.

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