Wagged vs Jagged - What's the difference?
wagged | jagged |
(wag)
To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Jer. xviii. 16
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
* 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii
* 1901 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13
(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To go; to depart.
* Shakespeare
An oscillating movement.
A witty person.
Accessed 23 Feb. 2006.
* Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.
Unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.
Having a rough quality.
(computing) Of an array, having a different cardinality in each dimension, such that a representation on paper would appear uneven.
As verbs the difference between wagged and jagged
is that wagged is past tense of wag while jagged is past tense of jag.As an adjective jagged is
unevenly cut; having the texture of something so cut.wagged
English
Verb
(head)wag
English
Verb
- No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
- Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
- "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."
- They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
- "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags ."
- I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag .
Derived terms
* (to not go to school) play the wag; hop the wag; wag it * to finger-wagSee also
* waggle (frequentative) * wiggleNoun
(en noun)- The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.