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wagn.1

Brit. /waɡ/, U.S. /wæɡ/
Forms: Also 1500s wagg(e.
Etymology: < wag v.
1.
a. An act of wagging (the tail, hand, tongue, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > instance of
wig-wag1582
wag1589
1589 T. Lodge Scillaes Metamorphosis B j When first with [printed which] fingers wagge he gan to still them.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 245 Amo. You become the simper, well, ladie. Mer. And the wag, better.
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. Introd. p. ix There was..more..sympathy in the wag of old Trusty's tail, than if [etc.].
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xi. 101 With..a scarcely perceptible wag of his head.
1870 E. H. Pember Trag. of Lesbos iii. 68 One wag of thy fool's tongue at her or me, And by the head of Hecate, thou diest!
1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water viii But recognising her, he gave a faint wag of the tail and sank down again to doze.
1891 Field 28 Nov. 835/1 The most silent of us are apt to let our tongues wag, or to listen complacently to the wag of others.
b. Power or disposition to wag.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > [noun] > wagging > power of or disposition to
wag1851
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xiii, in Writings I. 127 The old house-dog crawled towards him, with no wag in his tail.
1881 Cent. Mag. 23 932/2 [They] stroked his [the dead ass's] long ears out of which the wag had gone forever.
†2. to hold (a person) wag: to keep at bay, defy. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > defy
stout1303
defy1377
beard1476
brave1546
brag1551
outface1574
to hold (a person) waga1578
dare1580
outbrave1589
bedarea1596
maugre1597
championa1616
to bid defiance to1632
stem1675
bravadea1698
bravo1732
a1578 J. Heywood Witty & Witless 347 in Two Moral Interludes (1991) 31 I say nay and wyll so envey That I wyll holde ye to wagge another w[a]ey.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xvi. cvii. 415 But who against that Ages Mars first Edward might hold-out? Yet twice this Lewlin held him wag.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wagn.2

Brit. /waɡ/, U.S. /wæɡ/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s wagg(e.
Etymology: Probably < wag v.Possibly (as suggested by Wedgwood) a shortening of waghalter n., applied playfully to a child or to a joker. But it may have originated from the verb in other ways.
†1. A mischievous boy (often as a mother's term of endearment to a baby boy); in wider application, a youth, young man, a ‘fellow’, ‘chap’. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > young person > youth or young man > [noun]
frumberdlingc1000
young manOE
childc1225
hind1297
pagec1300
youtha1325
fawnc1369
swainc1386
stripling1398
boy1440
springaldc1450
jovencel1490
younkera1522
speara1529
gorrel1530
lad1535
hobbledehoy1540
cockerel1547
waga1556
spring1559
loonc1560
hensure1568
youngster1577
imp1578
pigsney1581
cocklinga1586
demy1589
muchacho1591
shaver1592
snipper-snappera1593
callant1597
spaught1598
stubble boy1598
ghillie1603
codling1612
cuba1616
skippera1616
man-boy1637
sprig1646
callow1651
halflang1660
stubbed boy1683
gossoon1684
gilpie1718
stirraha1722
young lion1792
halfling1794
pubescent1795
young man1810
sixteener1824
señorito1843
tad1845
boysie1846
shaveling1854
ephebe1880
boychick1921
lightie1946
young blood1967
studmuffin1986
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iv. sig. D.jv I will rather haue my cote twentie times swinged, Than on the naughtie wag not to be auenged.
1573 T. Tusser Points Huswifrie (new ed.) f. 11, in Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) For euery trifle leaue iauncing thy Nag, but rather make lacky, of Iack boy thy wag.
1584 J. Lyly Sapho & Phao v. ii. 55 [Venus says to Cupid:] Vnhappy wag, what hast thou done?
1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. B4 Mothers wagge, pretie boy, Fathers sorrow, fathers ioy.
1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. ii. 57 But I prethe sweet wag, shall there be gallowes standing in England when thou art king? View more context for this quotation
1602 B. Jonson Poetaster iv. iii. sig. G3 But if Cypris once recouer The wag; it shall behoue her To looke better to him. View more context for this quotation
1607 Fayre Mayde of Exchange H 4 Thou maist..Learne to entice the affable yong wagge.
1672 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd i. 87 Nor was he let down till the Master had planted a Grove of Birch in his back-side, for the Terrour..of all Waggs that divulge the Secrets of Priscian.
2. ‘Any one ludicrously mischievous; a merry droll’ (Johnson); a habitual joker. (In early use often combined with sense 1) Phrase, to play the wag.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > mischievous or practical joking > [noun] > one who
wag1584
shaver1592
wagship1607
lick1725
nickum1804
practical joker1830
leg-puller1887
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xiii. xxiii. 324 How to rap a wag vpon the knuckles.
1591 J. Lyly Endimion iii. iii. sig. E2v Heere commeth two wagges. Enter Dares and Samias.
c1592 Faire Em sig. B1v The little boy hath played the wagg with you.
1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes (Grosart) 9/2 Hauing wit enough, vpon a litle warning, to plaie the wagge in the right vaine.
a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Coxcombe v. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Oo4v/2 Just. Go to go to, you have a merry meaning, I have found you sir ifaith, you are a wag, away.
1635 Life Long Meg of Westminster 37 The little boy, that was a wag, thought to be merry with the miller.
1640 in 11th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1887) App. vii. 100 Some wagg or other hath sett over the parliament doore pray remember the judges as if they had been too long forgotten.
1744 M. Bishop Life Matthew Bishop 156 We were daily playing the Wag, and as jocular as ever Men were all the time we stayed there.
1745 Joe Miller's Jests 61 The same Wagg..said, Taylors were like Woodcocks, for they got their Sustenance by their long Bills.
1779 Mirror No. 23. ⁋3 He took in succession the degrees of a wag, a pickle, and a lad of mettle.
1787 F. Burney Diary June (1842) III. 375 Colonel Goldsworthy is the wag professed of their community.
1840 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith I. 20 One Kelly, a notorious wag.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 21 The inns of Spain are divided by wags into many classes—the bad, the worse, and the worst.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 358 Some wag cried out, ‘Burn it; burn it;’ and this bad pun..was received with shouts of laughter.
3. to play (the) wag: to play truant. slang. Also, to hop the wag: see to hop the wag at hop v.1 Phrases 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 87/1 Used by schoolmasters for the correction of boys who neglect their tasks, or play the wag.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 197/1 They often persuaded me to ‘hop the wag’ that is, play truant from school.
1889 J. K. Jerome Three Men in Boat xvii. 284 A boy, when he plays the wag from school.
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 154 Oh! why will you run away from home, Will, and play the wag, and steal, and get us all into such trouble?
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wagn.3

Brit. /waɡ/, U.S. /wæɡ/
Etymology: < Gaelic uamhag, diminutive of uamh cave, hollow: compare weem n.
Archaeology.
In Caithness, an Iron-age galleried structure set partly below ground-level (see quot. 1963).
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > prehistoric dwellings
broch1654
crannog1851
pile-building1863
pile-work1863
fascine dwelling1865
lake-habitation1865
palafitte1866
terramare1866
roundhouse1872
mound dwelling1897
wag1911
wheel-dwelling1931
wheelhouse1935
1776 A. Pope in T. Pennant Tour in Scotl. 1769 (ed. 4) 338 Figures 2 and 3 are what are styled forest or hunting houses... They consist of a gallery, with a number of small rooms on the sides..made with the vast flags [stones] this country is famous for... Their length is from fifty to sixty feet. These buildings are only in places where the great flags are plentiful. In Glen-Loch are three, and are called by the country people Uags.]
1911 A. O. Curle in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 11 Dec. 89 To the galleried structure the name ‘wag’ in former times was evidently applied and still remains in use, though now transferred from the structure to the place or site, e.g. ‘Wag-more rig’, ‘Wag-burn’ and ‘the Wag’.
1921 A. O. Curle in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. 10 Jan. 93 Interesting as the discovery of these post~holes is in the elucidation of the broch construction, the interest it evokes does not stop here. The arrangement at once recalls the plans of the wags or galleried dwellings in Caithness.
1963 Field Archaeol. (Ordnance Surv.) (ed. 4) 63 In Caithness there is the local variant structure known as a wag... The dwelling part is represented by a strongly-built hut circle of ordinary plan, but to this is added an oval stone-built chamber about twice as big as the hut with its floor excavated somewhat below the general ground level.
1972 E. M. Mackie in Dark Ages in Highlands 16 One site at Forse..could well be a pre-broch defensive structure... This is the so-called ‘wag’ or ‘prehistoric cattlefold’ excavated by Alexander Curle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Wagn.4

Brit. /waɡ/, U.S. /wæɡ/
Forms: 2000s– WAG, 2000s– Wag, 2000s– wag.
Origin: Formed within English, as an acronym. Etymon: English wives and girlfriends.
Etymology: Acronym < the initial letters of wives and girlfriends, with the acronym treated as a singular noun.
Originally British.
In plural: (collectively) the wives and girlfriends of a group of professional football players, typically characterized as having a high media profile and a glamorous or extravagant lifestyle; (in extended use) the wives and girlfriends of any group of men, esp. celebrities or sportsmen. Also in singular.
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2002 Sunday Tel. 19 May 16/3 While their menfolk sweated during training sessions.., the Wags' biggest dilemma was whether to baste their backs or their legs in SPF25 sunscreen, to have a manicure or buy a bikini in the resort boutique.
2007 Guardian 8 Oct. (G2 section) 2/3 Tight and teeny dresses that, unless you're a Wag, are best worn with small heels instead of stilettos.
2008 J. Irwin Murder on Darts Board viii. 167 And not only did the darts WAGs attend tournaments, they had to do so without drinking.
2009 L. Banker & W. Mullins Britannia in Brief iii. 83 Often, WAGs are working-class girls who are suddenly rolling in money and shamelessly living the high life.
2010 Evening Standard (Nexis) 4 Aug. Cutting-edge bands don't always sell but every seat was taken last night for this double bill—and not only by the bands' friends, Wags and relatives.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wagv.

Brit. /waɡ/, U.S. /wæɡ/
Forms: Inflected wagged, wagging. Forms: Middle English–1600s wagge, Middle English, 1500s wage, 1500s–1700s wagg, Middle English– wag.
Etymology: Middle English wagge-n , < root of Old English wagian (Middle English waȝe-n ) to oscillate, shake: see waw v.1The verb may be regarded as an iterative or emphatic form of wagian waw v.1, which is often nearly synonymous; it was used, e.g., of a loose tooth, and (Middle English) in the proverb 4c. Parallel formations from the same root are Old Norse vagga weak feminine, cradle (Swedish vagga , Dutch vugge ), (Middle) Swedish vagga to rock a cradle, early modern German waggen (modern High German dialect wacken ) to waver, totter. Compare waggle v.
I. Intransitive uses.
1. To be in motion or activity; to stir, move. Now colloquial (chiefly in negative context), to stir, move one's limbs.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)]
stira1000
icchec1175
wag?c1225
movea1325
routa1325
to-wawea1375
removea1400
sway?a1400
trotc1430
ayrec1440
quinch1511
walk1533
twitch1542
shift1595
jee1727
to get around1849
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 275 Þis wrestlung is ful bitter to monie þet beoð ful forð. inwei towart heouene. for þeo ȝet in fondunges..waggeð oðer hwiles.
a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxx. 410 Vnethes may I wag, man, For-wery in youre stabill Whils I set my stag, man.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 196 in Poems (1981) 117 Ane horne he [sc. Mars] blew..Quhilk all this warld with weir hes maid to wag.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Giii v To brawle or to wage, branslér.
1582 C. Fetherston Dialogue agaynst Dauncing sig. A4v The wofull wayling of the widowe doeth not once make him [the rich man] wagge.
1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles i. 4. 6 Warlike discipline requireth this, that no man wagge, vnlesse hee be commaunded by the captaine.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 52 [He] did feele a thing by happe Within her wombe to wagge, and beat against her brest.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 289 Binde them fast to their chaires that they shall not wagge.
1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas Spanish Bawd xix. 189 Our unfortunate Master is falne from the ladder, and neither speakes nor wagges.
1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica xxiii. 297 Driven to fly with her heavie burden with which she is scarce able to wag.
1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes To Rdr. sig. A3v Some..field-Chaplains..envying that a loyall pen should wagge, where they [etc.].
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxiv. 91 Which gave us such an alarum, as not daring scarce to wag we got out again with all secrecy.
1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. vi. v, in Wks. 156 The miserable Distress of their Condition drew Tears and Pity, wher-ever they came, but not a Creature durst so much as Wag to help them.
1860 G. J. Whyte-Melville Market Harborough xii I've a hack here at Welford... He's short of work, poor devil! and could hardly wag coming up the hill.
†2. To totter, stagger, be in danger of falling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > move unsteadily [verb (intransitive)] > totter
shake1297
waive1338
wagc1340
falterc1386
waverc1440
branglea1522
totterc1522
wave1538
swerve1573
nod1582
tittera1618
cockle1634
labascate1727
teeter1904
oversway1994
c1340 Nominale (Skeat) 166 M[an] sliduth vp-on hyse, W[oman] waggi [t] h [Fr. ercule; error for croule] and falluth lowe.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xviii. 61 Þe wal wagged and clef and al þe worlde quaued.
c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) 110 Þey [sc. two beasts] gnowe at the Rote of the tree..to throwe it downe, in so muche that the wrecchid man felte it wagge.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xvii. 238 And thenne they stode wagyng and scateryng [1529 stakerynge], pontyng, blowynge and bledynge.
3.
a. To oscillate, shake, or sway alternately in opposite directions, as something working on a pivot, fitting loosely in a socket, or the like. Of a boat or ship: To rock.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > wag
wag1377
wig-wag1892
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. viii. 31 Þe wynde and þe water and þe bote waggynge Maketh þe man many a tyme to falle and to stonde.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 226 His chyn wiþ a chol lollede..þat all wagged his flesh as a quyk mire.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) (1495) xvii. xlv Iuce þerof hette wiþ vynegre fastene[þ] teþe þatt waggen.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 119 Yet saw I neuere..How þt the hoper wagges til and fra.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 513/1 Waggon', or waveron', or stere be hyt selfe as a thynge hangynge, vacillo.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiv I sawe a wether cocke wagge with the wynde.
a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in Wks. (1846) I. 147 Syd gounis mycht have bene sein wantonly wag from the one wall to the other.
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) v. 196 It could not wag with the least kind of Declination.
1654 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) II. 371 Mar. She wagges! she wagges!.. My lord, uppon my life the ship did wag; I saw her move.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Tunnel There should be a Stick..to keep up the Head and Tail [of a stalking horse], which last should be at some distance from the Body, that it may wag in moving.
1817 W. Scott Rob Roy II. v. 97 Better a finger aff as aye wagging.
†b. Of leaves, corn, reeds, etc.: To waver, shake. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > vibration > vibrate [verb (intransitive)] > shake
quakeeOE
bivec888
shakec950
reseOE
aquetcha1000
divera1225
quavec1225
quetchc1275
squetchc1330
tremblec1374
waga1398
roga1400
shaga1400
quashc1400
shatter1533
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. vii. 907 [A reeod] waggiþ wiþ þe wynde, and herteþ þe hond soone wiþ splintres.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 8968 As levis wagges with the wynde.
1423 Kingis Quair lx Bot blawe wynd, blawe,..That sum twig may wag, and mak hir to wake.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. I. i. 7 The little boye espying the bush to wag,..imagined that there lay some wilde beast.
1658 tr. G. della Porta Nat. Magick iv. i. 113 Binde [the Vines]..with strings or thongs, that they may be surely stayed from wagging up and down.
1663 S. Patrick Parable of Pilgrim (1687) xxxvi. 457 If a leaf wagged, it was by the sweet breath of those Musicians which sate among the branches.
a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husbandry (1757) 243 No grass of any other kind did wag.
Proverbial phrase.a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 362 The King..lyked of nan that wald nocht wag as the bus [= bush] waggit.
†c. figurative. To waver, vacillate. Obsolete.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > be irresolute or vacillate [verb (intransitive)]
haltc825
flecchec1300
waverc1315
flickerc1325
wag1387
swervea1400
floghter1521
stacker1526
to be of (occasionally in) many (also divers) minds1530
wave1532
stagger1533
to hang in the wind1536
to waver as, like, with the wind1548
mammer1554
sway1563
dodge1568
erch1584
suspend1585
float1598
swag1608
hoverc1620
hesitate1623
vacillate1623
fluctuate1634
demur1641
balance1656
to be at shall I, shall I (not)1674
to stand shall I, shall I1674
to go shill-I shall-I1700
to stand at shilly-shally1700
to act, to keep (upon), the volanta1734
whiffle1737
dilly-dally1740
to be in (also of, occasionally on) two minds (also in twenty minds, in (also of) several minds, etc.)1751
oscillate1771
shilly-shally1782
dacker1817
librate1822
humdrum1825
swing1833
(to stand or sit) on or upon the fence1848
to back and fill1854
haver1866
wobble1867
shaffle1873
dicker1879
to be on the weigh-scales1886
waffle1894
to think twice1898
to teeter on the brink1902
dither1908
vagulate1918
pern1920
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 321 Robard, waggynge as a reed, assented anon.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Av Thy mynde it waues and wagges.
†d. To dangle on the gallows, be hanged. Obsolete.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > be hanged [verb (intransitive)]
rideeOE
hangc1000
anhangc1300
wagc1430
totter?1515
to wave in the windc1515
swing1542
trine1567
to look through ——?1570
to preach at Tyburn cross1576
stretch?1576
to stretch a rope1592
truss1592
to look through a hempen window?a1600
gibbet1600
to have the lift1604
to salute Tyburn1640
to dance the Tyburn jig1664
dangle1678
to cut a caper on nothing1708
string1714
twist1725
to wallop in a tow (also tether)1786
to streek in a halter1796
to straight a ropea1800
strap1815
to dance upon nothing1837
to streek a tow1895
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xvii. 144 It is þe hand þat maketh the feet to wagge [Fr. baller] and þe eres to be kitte.
1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxvv Let them beware of waggynge in the galowes.
15.. A pore Help 256 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. (1866) 261 Your happe may be to wagge Upon a wodden nagge.
4.
a. Of a limb, the head or tail, etc.: To be moved briskly from side to side.
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the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > wag > specifically of bodily member
waw13..
wag1484
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope iii. xvii [The ape said to the fox] What auaylleth to the soo long a taylle, hit doth but wagge.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. x. 241 The Troglodites have among them certaine Tortoises, with broad hornes like the pegges in a Lute or Harpe, and the same will wagge and stirre so, as in swimming they helpe themselves therewith.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 264 Why, I will fight with him vpon this theame Vntill my eye-lids will no longer wagge . View more context for this quotation
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 92 Their Elbows wag faster than their Tongues.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft i. 15 A humourist, who planted himself..with his eyes riveted on the..bronze lion that graces the front of Northumberland-house.., and having attracted the attention of those who looked at him by muttering ‘By Heaven it wags!’ [etc.].
b. Of the tongue, †lips: To move briskly in animated talk: often with an implication of foolish or indiscreet speech.
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1590 Tarltons Newes out of Purgatorie 24 When her tung could not wagge, she heaued her hands aboue water.
1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes (Grosart) 13/1 Being one that loued to heare a tongue wagge, either her owne, her Gossips, her Maides, or her Pyes.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iii, in Wks. I. 239 For the solemne Addresse, two Lips wagging, and neuer a wise word.
1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 65 ‘Daughter,’ said Simon, ‘your tongue wags too freely.’
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. x. 176 Boys whose tongues were used to wag in concert at the most brutal street games.
1883 F. M. Peard Contradictions xxvii I know you will be careful not to set tongues wagging.
c. Proverb.
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13.. K. Alis. 1164 Swithe mury hit is in halle, When the burdes wawen [Laud MS. waweþ] alle!]
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Fiiiv It is mery in halle, when berds wag all.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 54 Be mery in hall, Let beards wag all.
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints iii. f. 53 It is a common prouerb. Its meary in Hall: Whan Beardes wags all.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 35 Tis merry in hal when beards wags all. View more context for this quotation
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 170 They say, 'tis merry in Hall, when Beards wag all.
d. To sway the body from side to side; (of a dog) to walk with a swaying movement.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > sway > specifically the body
wag1701
1701 J. Garretson School of Manners (ed. 4) viii. 53 Run not hastily in the street, nor go too slowly: wag not to and fro, nor use any antick or wanton posture either of thy head, hands, feet or body.
1868 J. Kavanagh Dora xxi They all left the inn.., Eva as usual clinging to Dora's side, and Fido wagging slowly behind her.
†5. To move about from place to place; to wander. Also, to drift (in water). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [verb (intransitive)] > with no fixed aim or wander
wharvec890
woreOE
wandera1000
rengec1230
wagc1325
roamc1330
errc1374
raikc1390
ravec1390
rumblec1400
rollc1405
railc1425
roit1440
waverc1440
rangea1450
rove1481
to-waver1487
vaguea1525
evague1533
rangle1567
to go a-strayinga1586
vagary1598
divagate1599
obambulate1614
vagitate1614
ramble1615
divage1623
pererrate1623
squander1630
peramble1632
rink1710
ratch1801
browse1803
vagrate1807
bum1857
piroot1858
scamander1864
truck1864
bat1867
vagrant1886
float1901
vagulate1918
pissant1945
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > move freely on surface
wagc1325
floata1400
innate1670
vogue1687
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 190 in Pol. Songs (1839) 332 He wole wagge aboute the cloistre and kepen hise fet clene in house.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxxviii. 41 Who maketh redi to the crowe his mete, whan his briddis crie to God, hider and thider waggende [L. vagantes].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 13542 Thus I skope fro the skathe with skyrme of my hondes, And with wawes of the water wagget to bonke.
a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 251 The head thus being above, the body beneath in water, wagging and removing to and fro.
†6. To move, budge from a place. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away from [verb (transitive)]
leaveeOE
beleavea1250
devoidc1325
voidc1330
roomc1400
wagc1400
departa1425
refusea1425
avoid1447
ishc1450
remove1459
absent1488
part1496
refrain1534
to turn the backc1540
quita1568
apart1574
shrink1594
to fall from ——1600
to draw away1616
to go off ——a1630
shifta1642
untenant1795
evacuate1809
exit1830
stash1888
split1956
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 5875 Thei myght onethes a-wey wagge With siluer and gold.
1585 C. Fetherston tr. J. Calvin Comm. Actes Apostles xvi. 27. 402 Though his bands wer loosed, he did not once wag from his place.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 194 It is said by maner of a prouerbiall speach that he who findes himselfe well should not wagge.
1609 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie i. sig. A6 As many [bees] as are stricken, within an howre after will not be able to wagge out of the place.
1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 20 The separated souls of the wicked..cannot possibly wag from the place of their confinement.
1675 W. Wycherley Country-wife iv. 78 ‘Sir go we'l follow you.’ ‘I will not wag without you.’
1715 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1901) V. 133 I cannot wag out of Oxford till the Term is ended.
1730 H. Fielding Rape upon Rape iii. xi. 44 I'll not wag without you.
7.
a. To go, depart, be off. Now colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)]
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
atwendOE
awayOE
to wend awayOE
awendOE
gangOE
rimeOE
flitc1175
to fare forthc1200
depart?c1225
part?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
biwitec1300
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to draw awayc1330
passc1330
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
voidc1374
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
waive1390
to pass out ofa1398
avoida1400
to pass awaya1400
to turn awaya1400
slakec1400
wagc1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
muck1429
packc1450
recede1450
roomc1450
to show (a person) the feetc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
devoidc1485
rebatea1500
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
to go one's ways1530
retire?1543
avaunt1549
to make out1558
trudge1562
vade?1570
fly1581
leave1593
wag1594
to get off1595
to go off1600
to put off1600
shog1600
troop1600
to forsake patch1602
exit1607
hence1614
to give offa1616
to take off1657
to move off1692
to cut (also slip) the painter1699
sheera1704
to go about one's business1749
mizzle1772
to move out1792
transit1797–1803
stump it1803
to run away1809
quit1811
to clear off1816
to clear out1816
nash1819
fuff1822
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
mosey1829
slope1830
to tail out1830
to walk one's chalks1835
to take away1838
shove1844
trot1847
fade1848
evacuate1849
shag1851
to get up and get1854
to pull out1855
to cut (the) cable(s)1859
to light out1859
to pick up1872
to sling one's Daniel or hook1873
to sling (also take) one's hook1874
smoke1893
screw1896
shoot1897
voetsak1897
to tootle off1902
to ship out1908
to take a (run-out, walk-out, etc.) powder1909
to push off1918
to bugger off1922
biff1923
to fuck off1929
to hit, split or take the breeze1931
to jack off1931
to piss offa1935
to do a mick1937
to take a walk1937
to head off1941
to take a hike1944
moulder1945
to chuff off1947
to get lost1947
to shoot through1947
skidoo1949
to sod off1950
peel1951
bug1952
split1954
poop1961
mugger1962
frig1965
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)]
to come awayeOE
wendeOE
i-wite971
ashakec975
shakeOE
to go awayOE
witea1000
afareOE
agoOE
awayOE
dealc1000
goOE
awendOE
rimeOE
to go one's wayOE
flitc1175
depart?c1225
partc1230
to-partc1275
atwitea1325
withdrawa1325
to turn one's (also the) backc1330
lenda1350
begonec1370
remuea1375
removec1380
to long awaya1382
twinc1386
to pass one's wayc1390
trussc1390
to turn awaya1400
returnc1405
to be gonea1425
recede1450
roomc1450
to come offc1475
to take one's licence1475
issue1484
walka1500
to go adieua1522
pikea1529
avaunt1549
trudge1562
vade?1570
discoast1571
leave1593
wag1594
to go off1600
troop1600
hence1614
to set on one's foota1616
to pull up one's stumps1647
quit1811
to clear out1816
slope1830
to walk one's chalks1835
shove1844
to roll out1850
to pull out1855
to light out1859
to take a run-out powder1909
to push off (also along)1923
1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie ii. i. sig. C2 But let mee bee wagging.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing v. i. 16 If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, And sorrow, wagge [read Bid sorrow wagge], crie hem, when he should grone. View more context for this quotation
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. iii. 6 Discard bully, Hercules cassire. Let them wag, trot, trot.
a1648 W. Percy Cuck-queanes & Cuckolds Errants (1824) iv. i. 47 My gentleman, let him wagge, whither he please, in the name of Jehoua.
1652 A. Ross Hist. World ii. iv. 64 He [Heliogabalus]..never would wag any where without 60 Chariots.
1779 W. Cowper Yearly Distress 50 Come, neighbours, we must wag.
b. To travel or make one's way; to ‘jog along’. literal and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)]
nimeOE
becomec885
teec888
goeOE
i-goc900
lithec900
wendeOE
i-farec950
yongc950
to wend one's streetOE
fare971
i-wende971
shakeOE
winda1000
meteOE
wendOE
strikec1175
seekc1200
wevec1200
drawa1225
stira1225
glidea1275
kenc1275
movec1275
teemc1275
tightc1275
till1297
chevec1300
strake13..
travelc1300
choosec1320
to choose one's gatea1325
journeyc1330
reachc1330
repairc1330
wisec1330
cairc1340
covera1375
dressa1375
passa1375
tenda1375
puta1382
proceedc1392
doa1400
fanda1400
haunta1400
snya1400
take?a1400
thrilla1400
trace?a1400
trinea1400
fangc1400
to make (also have) resortc1425
to make one's repair (to)c1425
resort1429
ayrec1440
havea1450
speer?c1450
rokec1475
wina1500
hent1508
persevere?1521
pursuec1540
rechec1540
yede1563
bing1567
march1568
to go one's ways1581
groyl1582
yode1587
sally1590
track1590
way1596
frame1609
trickle1629
recur1654
wag1684
fadge1694
haul1802
hike1809
to get around1849
riddle1856
bat1867
biff1923
truck1925
1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 183 They made a pretty good shift to wagg along. View more context for this quotation
1798 J. Jefferson Let. to J. Boucher 23 Feb. (MS.) People in Hampshire not only wag the head or hand,..but they wag out, when they take a walk.—It always puts me in mind of a Duck.
1843 H. W. Longfellow Spanish Student iii. vi. 173 Thus I wag through the world, half the time on foot, and the other half walking.
1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 28 So he wagged along and helped to build up the commercial greatness and probity and honour of his country.
c. In proverbial phrases with ‘the world’ as subject. how the world wags: how affairs are going. to let the world wag (as it will): to regard the course of events with unconcern. (For other expressions analogous to these, see the quots.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]
to put in no chaloir1477
not to care1490
to let the world wag (as it will)c1525
not to care a chip1556
to hang loose (to)1591
(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632
not to careor matter a farthing1647
not to care a doit1660
(not) to care twopencea1744
not to give a curse (also damn)1763
not to care a dump1821
not to care beans1833
not to care a darn1840
not to give a darn1840
not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861
not to care (also give) a whoop1867
(to care) not a fouter1871
not to care (or give) a toss1876
not to give (also care) a fuck1879
je m'en fiche1889
not to care a dit(e)1907
je m'en fous1918
not to give a shit1918
to pay no nevermind1946
not to give a sod1949
not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960
not to give a stuff1974
the world > action or operation > doing > a proceeding > in progress [phrase] > how things proceed
how the world wagsc1525
how (the) squares go1608
c1525 J. Rastell Of Gentylnes & Nobylyte sig. Cijv I wyll let the world wagg & home wyll I goo.
a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.iiiv In flattryng fables, men fynde but lyttyl fayth But moveatur terra, let the world wag.
1538 H. Latimer Let. 17 June in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 396 By this bill inclosed your lordship can perceive something, how the world doth wag with Warwick college.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Biiiv Let the worlde wagge we must neades haue drynke.
1575 G. Gascoigne Glasse of Gouernem. iv. iii. sig. I I warrant thee wee two will liue howe soeuer the world wagge.
1605 C. Tourneur Laugh & lie Downe sig. Eii Wee will haue a merry Bridall day, let the world wagge after as it will.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Gallere Vogue la gallere, let the world wag, slide, goe how it will; let goe a Gods name.
a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. vii. 23 Thus we may see (quoth he) how the world wagges . View more context for this quotation
1656 R. Sanderson 20 Serm. 106 Solomons sluggard,..who foldeth his hands together; and letteth the world wag as it will.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 130 Let us then go and see how the World wags in the City Circle.
1702 Secret Mercury 2–9 Sept. 2/1 I retir'd to my Lodgings and let the World wagg for that Night.
1770 R. Cumberland Brothers i. viii. 9 Let the world wag as it will, he'll never flinch.
1790 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 105 Let the world wag as it may.
1791 F. Burney Let. 31 July in Jrnls. & Lett. (1972) I. 1 I shall not, I hope, be forgetful, when the World wags ill; [etc.].
1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. ii. 41 ‘I will have a rouze with Dunois,’ said Crevecœur, ‘wag the world as it will.’
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. i. 3 But you shall hear..how the world has wagged with me.
1861 Congressional Globe 18 Feb. 967/3 But I believe the world has wagged along about the same after as they did before the resolutions passed.
1877 W. Black Green Pastures xlii Let the world wag on as it may.
1910 H. W. Eliot Let. 12 May in T. S. Eliot Lett. (1988) I. 14 The world wags and the end draws nigher.
1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 209 It was necessary today to secure tangible proof for Mrs. Fessenden that she was still a wealthy woman, however the world wagged.
2007 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 27 Dec. Learn why the world wags and what wags it.
†d. To ‘get on’, associate with. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > associate together or with [verb (intransitive)]
mingc1275
company1387
joinc1390
meddlec1390
herd?a1400
fellowshipc1430
enfellowship1470
to step in1474
accompany?1490
yoke?a1513
to keep with ——c1515
conjoin1532
wag1550
frequent1577
encroach1579
consort1588
sort1595
commerce1596
troop1597
converse1598
to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598
to enter common1604
atone1611
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
minglea1616
consociate1638
associate1644
corrive1647
co-unite1650
walk1650
cohere1651
engage1657
mix1667
accustom1670
to make one1711
coalite1735
commerciate1740
to have nothing to say to (also with)1780
gang?1791
companion1792
mess1795
matea1832
comrade1865
to go around1904
to throw in with1906
to get down1975
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes iv. sig. Aiiiiv I with ale, and ale with me wag awaie.
c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxxiv. 89 Ȝe wantoun wowaris waggis With thame that hes the cunȝe.
8. slang. To play truant. Also to wag it. Cf. wag n.2 3.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1847 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) xxii. 216 ‘My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag?’ ‘Excepting what?’ said Mr. Carker. ‘Wag, Sir. Wagging from school.’ ‘Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?’ said Mr. Carker. ‘Yes, Sir, that's wagging, Sir.’
1901 W. S. Walker In the Blood i. 13 They had ‘wagged it’ from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
II. Transitive uses.
†9.
a. To set in movement, cause to quiver or oscillate; to shake or stir by force. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wag
wag1377
wig-wag1903
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvi. 41 And þanne fondeth þe fende my fruit to destruye, With alle þe wyles þat he can and waggeth þe rote.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 189 Centauri, as it were an hundred wynde waggers: for þey wagged wel þe wynde faste in hir ridynge.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 1943 in Macro Plays 135 Þis worthy, wylde werld, I wagge with a wyt.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 105v Than he began a lityll and a lityll to wagge the ston and to seke the Ioyntures that helde hit.
1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. bb.iiv The lefe that with a lytell wynde is wagged & blowen downe.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer Prol. f. cccxxvv Ouer that he had power of strengthe to pul vp the spere, that Alisander the noble might neuer wagge.
1582 N. Lichefield tr. F. L. de Castanheda 1st Bk. Hist. Discouerie E. Indias i. ix. 25 b They adiudged that the gabell [i.e. cable] had bene wagged or shaken by a kinde of Fish called a Tunnie.
1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 14 But how much more the louer made his mone..The more shee sate vnmoued, like the stone, Whom waues do beat, but wag not from his place.
1612 J. Selden in M. Drayton Poly-olbion i. Illustr. 16 So great, that many mens vnited strength cannot remoue it, yet with one finger you may wagge it.
1634 C. Butler Feminine Monarchie (new ed.) iii. 51 The Place..must be kept close and quiët; free from nois and noisom cattel, that may either wag or wake them.
a1677 I. Barrow Several Serm. Evil-speaking (1678) ii. 67 A small transient pleasure, a tickling the ears, wagging the lungs, forming the face into a smile [etc.].
†b. To nudge. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > strike with pushing action > give a push to
poteOE
puta1225
duncha1250
wag1377
pusha1450
jut1565
jog1589
stir1590
jolt1611
hunch1659
shtup1987
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xix. 199 I wondred what þat was, & wagged conscience, And was afered of the lyȝte.
10. To brandish (a weapon). Also, to wave (something) defiantly, as a signal, or to attract notice. Obsolete except in jocular use (cf. flag-wagging n. at flag n.4 Compounds 2).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > move in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > flourish or brandish
shakec1000
stirc1275
wagc1300
brandisha1340
flourishc1384
swinga1400
swinglec1450
ruffle?1562
sweak1567
vambrash1577
sway1590
swinge1605
to fetch about1609
wave1609
wheel1617
evibrate1654
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (intransitive)] > wave > as signal
wave1513
wag1535
c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 89 He was te beste knith at nede, Þat heuere micthe..wepne wagge, or folc vt lede.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. x. D Be not afrayde for the kinge of the Assirians: He shal wagg his staff at the,..But [etc.].
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. ix. 181/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The other..wagging a scroll which he had in his hand before the iudge.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. iv. sig. D5 So these two champions..in their hands their idle troncheons held, Which neither able were to wag, or once to weld. View more context for this quotation
1806 W. Scott Health Ld. Melville vii While there's one Scottish hand that can wag a claymore, sir.
11.
a. To move (a limb or part of the body attached by a joint) to and fro, up and down, or from side to side: usually implying rapid and repeated movement. †Also, to blink repeatedly with, ‘bat’ (the eyes).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wag > a bodily member
wagc1400
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [verb (transitive)] > move eyes > wink or blink
beatc1360
wag1574
twinkle1591
wink1838
snap1847
blink1858
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1484 As þay with wynge vpon wynde hade waged her fytheres.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 770/1 Do you nat se hym, he waggeth his hande at you.
1542 H. Brinkelow Lamentacion sig. Div What a blyndnes is it, to thynck my synnes forgeuen me, when a pryest..hath wagged two or thre fyngers ouer my head?
1574 Withals' Dict. 67 b/2 Pætus, he that waggeth the eyes.
1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido ii. i. 324 Achates, see King Priam wags his hand, He is aliue, Troy is not ouercome.
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 3/3 When the patient may easylye wagge his lower chawe bone.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gambayer, to wag the legs in sitting, as children vse to do.
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. S4 They wagge their hands vp and downe very often.
1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. ii. xxviii. 202 Nothing can be more harmless than wagging your finger considered in itself, yet if the finger rest against the trigger of a loaded musket and a man stand just before, you cannot do a wronger thing, and why?
1802 R. Southey St. Antidius in Ballads 35 He wagg'd his ears, he twisted his tail, He knew not for joy what to do.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxxvi. 326 [He] had to wag his leg half an hour by the dial.
in extended use.1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iv. i. 75 You may as well forbid the mountaine of Pines to wag their high tops. View more context for this quotation
b. (Chiefly in negative context, typifying the minimum of exertion.) To move, stir (a limb, finger, etc.). Now colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > bodily movement > move (the body or a member) [verb (transitive)] > move (a member)
stir?c1225
wawc1290
remove1483
wag1596
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. i. sig. N He found him selfe vnwist, so ill bestad, That lim he could not wag . View more context for this quotation
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 181 Travelling on the sands his hoof will burn and cleave, so as 'tis impossible to get him wag a foot.
1671 J. Blagrave Astrol. Pract. Physick 149 For some hours she would be as seemingly dead, and could wagg neither arm or leg.
1697 R. Pierce Bath Mem. i. vi. 125 He told me (with great joy) that he could wagg one of his Toes.
1855 J. R. Planché tr. Countess d'Aulnoy Fairy Tales (1858) 16 I'll wager, now, that this idle beauty hasn't wagged one of her ten fingers.
1861 C. Reade Cloister & Hearth (1896) lxxi. 207 Had it been any but you, believe me I had obeyed you and not wagged a finger.
1898 F. Harrison Autobiogr. Mem. (1911) II. xxx. 150 I most positively declined to ask him or anyone to wag a finger to get me there.
c. To shake (the head); to move (the head) from side to side.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > wag > a bodily member > the head
waga1340
a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xxi. 6 Þai spake with lippes and wagid þe heued.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiii. 19 ‘Owh! how!’ quaþ ich þo and myn hefd waggede.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xix. ix. 787 And thenne the quene wagged her hede vpon sir Launcelot, as though she wold saye slee hym.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. cxliiii When Robert hadde harde that message to the ende he wagged his hede, as he that conceyued some doublenesse in this reporte.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxvii. f. vljv They that passed by, revyled hym waggynge [Gk. κινοῦντες] ther heeddes.
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus Prol. sig. Biv Why waggest thou thy heed, as though thou were very angry.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 277 These extreme passions of mynde,..when Democritus had heard,..he..wagged his head too and fro: wherein he had some meaning.
a1618 J. Sylvester Funeral Elegy in Wks. (1880) II. 291 O! Who so constant, but would grieve and grudge (If not a Christian) at th' All-ordering Judge; And wag his head at Heav'n,—weak earthly worm!
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. ii. 26 The poor parents were encouraged to hope, that their bairn, as they expressed it, ‘might wag his pow in a pulpit yet’.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 25 We were introduced instantly..: the little lord wagged his head, my wife bowed very low, and so did Mr. Coddler.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond vii Tidd at this looked very knowing; and, as our host sunk off to sleep again,..wagged his head at the captain.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 102 When once a man is obliged to do something besides wagging his head.
1872 H. W. Longfellow Cobbler of Hagenau in Three Bks. Song i. 35 The cobbler..wagging his sagacious head, Unto his kneeling housewife said: [etc.].
d. To move (the tongue, †lips) in animated speech: esp. with implication of indiscretion or malignity. Also of the tongue: To utter (words).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > utter in a chattering manner [verb (transitive)] > move (the tongue)
wag1569
troll1667
1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. lxii. 91 b They drawe deepe sighes from the harte: and wagging their lippes doo faigne to saie prayers.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 33 No Discerner Durst wagge his Tongue in censure. View more context for this quotation
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms II. (Ps. cix. 2) 860 There is nothing more easie, than to wag a wicked tongue.
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. iv. 143 The faithful Tibb and Dame Elspeth, excellent persons both, and as thorough gossips as ever wagged a tongue.
1827 W. Scott Jrnl. 10 Mar. (1941) 32 It is brave to see how he wags his Scots tongue.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Let. 30 July in Paris Sketch Bk. I. 74 Not a tongue was wagged in his praise.
1871 W. H. Dixon Tower III. xviii. 196 Every one who owed him grudge would eagerly begin to wag his tongue.
1894 J. Davidson Random Itin. 160 When they spoke, they simply left their mouths ajar, and allowed their tongues to wag the maimed words of an unknown dialect.
e. Of an animal: To move (its tail) from side to side: in dogs usually an indication of pleasure; in cats often a sign of anger.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > wag tail
fawna1400
waga1425
swinge1605
swish1799
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xiii And whan þei se her maister þei wole make hym chere and wag hir tayles vpon hym.
1542 T. Elyot Bibliotheca Agere caudam, to wag [1545 wagge] his tayle.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iii. sig. F2 Tis an old horse can neither wighy, nor wagge his taile.
1620 J. Taylor Jack a Lent C 2 All the Dogges in the Towne, doe wagge their tailes for ioy.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 88 They [sc. lambs] wagge the taile whilest sucking.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 231. ⁋2 The poor Cur looked up and wagged his Tail.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth V. 245 Pozzo..asserts, that it [sc. a toucan] leaped up and down, wagged the tail, and cried with a voice resembling that of a magpie.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. x. 264 They..Paw'd them in blandishment, and wagged the tail.
1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies iv. 132 And there..lay five or six great salmon..wagging their tails, as if they were very much pleased at it.
1865 H. Kingsley Hillyars & Burtons lxii The dog came wagging his tail.
†f. To flap (the wings). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by habits or actions > habits and actions > [verb (transitive)] > flap or flutter wings
wag1496
flush1558
flap1567
buska1774
1496 Cov. Leet Bk. 577 Litell small been, Þat al aboute fleen, They waggen their whyng.
1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft xi. vii. 195 Birds,..in what sort they wag their wings.
1596 E. Spenser Hymne Heauenly Loue in Fowre Hymnes 24 Ere flitting Time could wag his eyas wings About that mightie bound.
†g. To sway (the body) about. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > oscillation > oscillate [verb (transitive)] > cause to sway > specifically the body
wag1665
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 191 After the Eastern mode they wagg'd their Bodies, bowing their heads [etc.].

Compounds

Also wag-at-the-wall n., waghalter n., wag-leg n., wagstart n., wagtail n.
† wag-feather n. Obsolete a swaggering coxcomb.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > boasting or boastfulness > blustering or bravado > [noun] > person
jettera1400
flirdom?a1500
facerc1500
termagant1508
rutterkina1529
bellomy1535
bystour1535
roister1549
swash1549
rush-buckler1551
roisterkin1553
swashbuckler1560
dash-buckler1567
swinge-buckler?1577
whiffler1581
huff-snuff1582
swish-swash1582
fixnet1583
swag1588
swasher?1589
kill-cow1590
roister-doister1592
dagger1597
flaunting Fabian1598
tisty-tosty1598
huff-cap1600
swaggerer1600
burgullian1601
huff-muff1602
tear-cat1606
blusterer1609
wag-feather1611
wind-cutter1611
bilbo-lorda1625
tearer1633
cacafuegoa1640
bravado1643
Hector1655
scaramouch1662
swashado1663
huffer1664
bluster-mastera1670
Drawcansir1672
bully huff1673
huff1674
belswagger1680
valienton1681
blunderbuss1685
Draw can bully1698
bouncer1764
Bobadil1771
bounce1819
pistol1828
sacripant1829
hufty1847
bucko1883
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coqueplumet,..a wag-feather.
† wag-pasty n. Obsolete a mischievous rogue.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > playful mischievousness > mischievous person > [noun]
wait-scathe1481
wag-pastya1556
mischief1586
rogue1593
devil1600
villain1609
fiend1621
imp1633
sprite1684
torment1785
scapegrace1809
bad hat1877
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.ijv A little wagpastie, A deceiuer of folkes, by subtill craft and guile.
c1563 Jack Jugler (Roxb.) 28 Truelye this wage pastie is either drunken or mad.
1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 278 That souldiers boy, who playd the wagge-pasty with his Masters pasty;..opened the lid of the pastie,..and supt vp all the sirrop.
† wag-string n. Obsolete = waghalter n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging
wickhals?a1400
crack-rope?a1500
stretch-hemp1532
man of death1535
slip-string1546
waghalter1546
hang-rope1570
rope-ripe1570
crack-halter1573
hempstring1573
wag-string1578
stretch-halter1583
gallows1598
halter-sack1598
wag-with1611
roper1615
gallows-climber1668
hang-string1675
gallows-face1725
gallows-bird1785
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging
wickhals?a1400
crack-rope?a1500
widdieneck?a1500
widdiefu?a1513
thevis neka1525
stretch-hemp1532
man of death1535
slip-string1546
waghalter1546
ropeful1567
gallows-clapper1570
hang-rope1570
rope-ripe1570
crack-halter1573
hempstring1573
wag-string1578
stretch-halter1583
gallows1598
halter-sack1598
wag-with1611
crack-hempa1616
roper1615
halter-sick1617
gallows-climber1668
hang-string1675
hempy1718
gallows-face1725
gallows-bird1785
hang-gallows1785
1578 H. Wotton tr. J. Yver Courtlie Controuersie 301 The boy..bethoughte hym of a knauerye fitte for a wagstring.
a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1637) 223 [We say,] when we see a gracelesse boy, Thou wilt prove a wagstring, if thou live to be elder.
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Traveller iv Oh thou crafty Wag-string.
wag-tongue n. a malicious chatterer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > chatting or chat > one who chats or gossips
kikelot?c1225
mathelild?c1225
cacklec1230
tutelerc1385
tittererc1400
roukera1425
trattlerc1485
flimmerc1530
tattler1549
chatter1561
gossip1566
gossiper1568
tittle-tattle1571
chatmate1599
fiddle-faddle1602
tittle-tattler1602
confabulator1659
twittle-twat1662
shat1709
prittle-prattle1725
tattle-basket1736
small-talker1762
nash-gab1816
granny1861
windjammer1880
schmoozer1899
scuttlebutt gossip1901
wag-tongue1902
coffee-houser1907
kibitzer1925
clatfarta1930
natterer1959
yacker1959
rapper1967
village gossip1972
1902 C. Headlam in Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 466 A chatterbox she is, and worse,—a regular woman wag~tongue.
† wag-wanton n. Obsolete a wanton.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > dissolute person > [noun]
unthriftc1330
castaway1526
degenerate1555
rakehellc1560
ruffian1560
reprobate1592
rakeshame1598
wag-wanton1601
pavement-beater1611
perdu1611
wantoner1665
profligate1679
rantipole1699
rakehellyc1768
the world > action or operation > inaction > idleness, lack of occupation or activity > [noun] > trifling activity or time-wasting > one who
musardc1330
tifflerc1535
dalliera1568
pingler1578
puddlera1585
wag-wanton1601
fiddle-faddle1602
piddler1602
pedlara1625
potterer1837
frivolist1884
frivoller1889
tiddlywinker1893
muck-about1933
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > person > spoiled person or child
wanton1526
wag-wanton1601
1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 72 Euery little childe that playeth wag-wanton.
1604 N. Breton Grimellos Fortunes (Grosart) 8/2 Thou wouldest neither carrie a ring, clawe a backe, plaie on both hands, be no wagge~wanton, with thy mistresse, nor Iudas with thy maister.
† wag-with n. [? with n.] Obsolete = waghalter n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > roguery > rogue > [noun] > worthy of hanging
wickhals?a1400
crack-rope?a1500
stretch-hemp1532
man of death1535
slip-string1546
waghalter1546
hang-rope1570
rope-ripe1570
crack-halter1573
hempstring1573
wag-string1578
stretch-halter1583
gallows1598
halter-sack1598
wag-with1611
roper1615
gallows-climber1668
hang-string1675
gallows-face1725
gallows-bird1785
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [noun] > rogue, knave, or rascal > worthy of hanging
wickhals?a1400
crack-rope?a1500
widdieneck?a1500
widdiefu?a1513
thevis neka1525
stretch-hemp1532
man of death1535
slip-string1546
waghalter1546
ropeful1567
gallows-clapper1570
hang-rope1570
rope-ripe1570
crack-halter1573
hempstring1573
wag-string1578
stretch-halter1583
gallows1598
halter-sack1598
wag-with1611
crack-hempa1616
roper1615
halter-sick1617
gallows-climber1668
hang-string1675
hempy1718
gallows-face1725
gallows-bird1785
hang-gallows1785
1611 J. Davies in T. Coryate Crudities sig. i3v While he most like a Wag-with Tooke of his Grapes as much as he could wag-with.
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