Crossword clues for wagged
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wag \Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagging.] [OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. [root]136. See Weigh.] To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head.
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
--Shak.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and
wag his head.
--Jer. xviii.
16.
Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-pastwag)
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Usage examples of "wagged".
Though neither the German cleaning his cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov.
Carl and Ted interchanged a glance of intrigues and preoccupation and began to leave, but Julie wagged the head, doing to them signs of which they remained.
After a brief hesitation, it wagged the head before the question of Emily.
It wagged the displeased head and it listened to the following commentaries of the psychologist.
Julie wagged the head, treating to shake that terror that paralyzed it, and also to tranquilize to Zack.
It wagged the head like denying what finished saying and became towards the car, drying itself with fury the tears.
The old prince looked at Rostopchin with a smile and wagged his head approvingly.