Synonyms of the word wag


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wag

  • v. To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or…
  • v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
  • v. (obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • v. (obsolete) To go; to depart.
  • n. An oscillating movement.
  • n. A witty person.

agitation

  • n. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with…
  • n. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical…
  • n. Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.
  • n. Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest…

card

  • n. A playing card.
  • n. (in the plural) Any game using playing cards; a card game.
  • n. A resource or an argument, used to achieve a purpose.
  • n. Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic etc.
  • n. (obsolete) A map or chart.
  • n. (informal) An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentrically so.
  • n. A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants.
  • n. (cricket) A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how…
  • n. (computing) A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide…
  • n. A greeting card.
  • n. A business card.
  • n. (television) Title card / Intertitle: A piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed…
  • n. test card.
  • n. (dated) A published note, containing a brief statement, explanation, request, expression of thanks, etc.
  • n. (dated) A printed programme.
  • n. (dated, figuratively, by extension) An attraction or inducement.
  • n. A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass.
  • n. (weaving) A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus…
  • n. An indicator card.
  • v. (US) To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement.
  • v. (dated) To play cards.
  • n. (uncountable, dated) Material with embedded short wire bristles.
  • n. (dated, textiles) A comb- or brush-like device or tool to raise the nap on a fabric.
  • n. (textiles) A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material…
  • n. (dated, textiles) A machine for disentangling the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  • n. A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine.
  • v. (textiles) To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning.
  • v. To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture.
  • v. (transitive) To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive, figuratively) To clean or clear, as if by using a card.
  • v. (obsolete, transitive) To mix or mingle, as with an inferior or weaker article.
  • n. Abbreviation of cardinal. (songbird).

humorist

  • n. A person who writes or performs humorous material.

humourist

  • n. (Britain) Alternative spelling of humorist.

jiggle

  • n. a weak, shaking movement.
  • v. (transitive) To shake something gently; to rattle or wiggle.
  • v. (intransitive) To shake, rattle, or wiggle.

joggle

  • v. (transitive) To shake slightly; to push suddenly but slightly, so as to cause to shake or totter; to jostle;…
  • v. (intransitive) To shake or totter; to slip out of place.
  • v. To jog or run while juggling.
  • v. (architecture, transitive) To join by means of joggles, so as to prevent sliding apart; sometimes, loosely,…
  • n. (engineering) A step formed in material by two adjacent reverse bends.
  • n. (architecture) A notch or tooth in the joining surface of any piece of building material to prevent slipping.

shake

  • v. (transitive, ergative) To cause (something) to move rapidly in opposite directions alternatingly.
  • v. (transitive) To move (one's head) from side to side, especially to indicate a negative.
  • v. (transitive) To move or remove by agitating; to throw off by a jolting or vibrating motion.
  • v. (transitive) To disturb emotionally; to shock.
  • v. (transitive) To lose, evade, or get rid of (something).
  • v. (intransitive) To move from side to side.
  • v. (intransitive, usually as "shake on") To shake hands.
  • v. (intransitive) To dance.
  • v. To give a tremulous tone to; to trill.
  • n. The act of shaking something.
  • n. A milkshake.
  • n. A beverage made by adding ice cream to a (usually carbonated) drink; a float.
  • n. Shake cannabis, small, leafy fragments of cannabis that gather at the bottom of a bag of marijuana.
  • n. (building material) A thin shingle.
  • n. A crack or split between the growth rings in wood.
  • n. A fissure in rock or earth.
  • n. A basic wooden shingle made from split logs, traditionally used for roofing etc.
  • n. (informal) Instant, second. (Especially in two shakes.).
  • n. (nautical) One of the staves of a hogshead or barrel taken apart.
  • n. (music) A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff…
  • n. A shook of staves and headings.
  • n. (Britain, dialect) The redshank, so called from the nodding of its head while on the ground.

waggle

  • v. (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
  • v. (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
  • n. A wobbling motion.
  • n. (golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed…

wiggle

  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To move with irregular, back and forward or side to side motions; To shake…
  • n. A rapid movement in alternating opposite directions, not necessarily regular.
  • n. (figuratively) An alternating state or characteristic.
  • n. (in the plural) See wiggles.

wit

  • n. (now usually in the plural) Sanity.
  • n. (obsolete usually in the plural) The senses.
  • n. Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
  • n. The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
  • n. Intelligence; common sense.
  • n. Humour, especially when clever or quick.
  • n. A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly archaic) Know, be aware of (constructed with of when used intransitively).
  • prep. (Southern US) Alternative spelling of with.

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