Crossword clues for waggle
waggle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Why do you go nodding and waggling so?
--L'Estrange.
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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c. (implied in waggling), frequentative of wag (v.). Compare Dutch waggelen "to waggle," Old High German wagon "to move, shake," German wackeln "to totter." Transitive sense from 1590s. Related: Waggled.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wobbling motion. 2 (cx golf English) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble. 2 (context intransitive English) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
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Usage examples of "waggle".
I waggled my hand in a circle to Rider and he orbited the cenote at a safe height while I studied the situation.
Afsan arrived out of breath, his dewlap waggling in the breeze to dissipate heat.
Afsan could feel the sack of his dewlap waggling in the breeze, dissipating heat.
His dewlap went from being a flaccid sack waggling beneath his muzzle to a puffed ruby balloon, almost as big as the dome of his cranium.
During the early part of the voyage, Toroca could stand wearing his complete snowsuit for only a few centidays before he began to overheat, his dewlap waggling.
Monique set her arms akimbo, flexed the erectile tissues of her breast mounds, and waggled the hiplike swelling below her waist.
Curt ignores him and pulls the plastic gerbil condo out of the car, waggling it gently back and forth to get it past the big steering wheel.
She lifted the fleam and transferred it hastily to her other hand, raising it into the air as she surreptitiously waggled the scalded hand behind her.
He danced round the room, wiggling his butt and waggling his body, waving imaginary maracas in the air.
Because Pemulis always conducts business solo and speaks no French, the whole transaction with the Nuck in charge had to be negotiated in dumbshow, and since this lumberjackish Antitoi Nuckwad tended to look from side to side before he communicated even more than Pemulis looked all around himself, with his dim-looking partner standing there cradling a broom and also scanning for eavesdroppers in the closed shop the whole time, the whole negotiated deal had resembled a kind of group psychomotor seizure, with different bits of whipping and waggling heads reflected in dislocated sections and at jagged angles in more mirrors and pebbled blown-glass vases than Pemulis had ever seen crammed into anywhere.
There was less shoulder-work and the art of Wedeln, a gentle waggling of the hips, was a revelation.
Trooper II Weik, waggling the muzzle of her submachine gun down the corridor toward the bow.
Daisy waggled her unmanicured fingers in farewell and dashed out of the showroom without looking back.
Wrathburn rumbled at the lich in a guttural language while the lich shrilled and waggled its arms like a skeleton outraged at being dead.
He attaches strings to her limbs and now while his thaumaturgy makes her dance, he waggles a frame as if he is manipulating her.