wag¹ /wag/

1. To move or be moved from side to side, or to shake to and fro
2. To oscillate
3. To move, or to move one's limbs
4. To move on, get on one's way (archaic)
5. To play truant (slang)
6. (of the tongue, chin, beard, etc) to move in light, gossiping or indiscreet talk
7. (of the world, etc, in the sense of human affairs) to go (in respect of good fortune and bad)

1. To move, shake or wave to and fro or up and down
2. To move (the tongue, chin, etc) in chatter or indiscreet talk
3. To move (the head or esp the finger) so as to express reproof or derision, etc
4. To brandish (obsolete)
5. (usu with neg) to move, stir (a limb, etc) (obsolete)

1. A shake
2. An act of wagging
3. Ability to wag
4. Truant (in play the wag)
5. An amusing, mischievous person, a habitual joker, a wit (perh from obsolete wagˈhalter, someone who deserves hanging)
6. A fellow (obsolete)

waggˈery noun

1. Mischievous merriment or jesting
2. An instance of this

waggˈish adjective

Amusing or mischievous

waggˈishly adverb

waggˈishness noun

• halfas
• half-a-sovereign
• half-assed
• halfback
• halfbacks
• half-baked
• half-ball
• half-balls
• half-baptise
• half-baptize
• half-baptized
• half-baptizes
• half-baptizing
• halfbeak
• halfbeaks
• half-binding
• half-blood
• half-blooded
• half-bloods
• half-blue
• half-blues
• half board
• half boards
• half-boot
• half-boots