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Waggle   Listen
noun
Waggle  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.



verb
Waggle  v. t.  (past & past part. waggled; pres. part. waggling)  To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.



Waggle  v. i.  To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle. "Why do you go nodding and waggling so?"






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"Waggle" Quotes from Famous Books



... head and looked intently at them without moving. Then they saw it was a bird, very large in size, but so forlorn, old, and broken that it could only flutter piteously its little flippers of wings and patiently and pathetically waggle that ...
— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... stupid as the rest, Larry. Whom should I mean? Jack Romayne, of course. There's a man for you. I just wish he'd waggle his finger at me! But he won't do things. He just 'glowers' at her, as old McTavish would say, with those deep eyes of his, and sets his jaw like a wolf trap, and waits. Oh, men are so ...
— The Major • Ralph Connor

... fencin' an' jookin', an glowerin' at himsel' i' the lookin'-gless; an' girnin' his teeth like a whitterit. I raley thocht the man had gane sketch. He made a sweech wi' the bissam shaft 'at garred the licht o' the can'le waggle frae side to side. Syne he straughtened himsel' up afore the gless, an', touchin' the ruif wi the point o' his stick, he says, "Viktory, viktory! Bannockburn is wun. ...
— My Man Sandy • J. B. Salmond

... to the scheme, and insisted on making me a fascinating little Charlie Chaplin moustache (the requisites for which he kept somewhere in the mortuary with the rest of his disguises!) and he then taught me to waggle it with great skill! ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp

... the bits between the bushes with bracken and leaves," said Kathleen, avoiding the question; "don't wriggle, Mabel, or you'll waggle them off." ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit


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