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Wag vs Warg - What's the difference?

wag | warg |

As nouns the difference between wag and warg

is that wag is an oscillating movement while warg is a type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.

As a verb wag

is to swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail.

wag

English

Verb

  • To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail
  • * Shakespeare
    • No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
  • * Bible, Jer. xviii. 16
    • Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
  • (UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
  • * 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii
    • "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 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13
    • They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
  • (obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.
  • * Shakespeare
    • "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags ."
  • (obsolete) To go; to depart.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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-wag

    See also

    * waggle (frequentative) * wiggle

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An oscillating movement.
    • The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
  • A witty person.

    • See also

    * skivitis

    References

    * The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989) Accessed 23 Feb. 2006. * Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.

    Anagrams

    * ----

    warg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (fantasy fiction, mythology) A type of particularly wild or hostile wolf.
  • *1937 , , The Hobbit :
  • *:Every now and then all the Wargs in the circle would answer their grey chief all together [...].
  • * 1993 , "jbatka", Multiple colors for PC compatible'' (on newsgroup ''rec.hack )
    • My question is do all of the executable versions for PC compatibles have the color option enabled? If so, what am I missing to not get say yellow for a hill orc, grey for a goblin, white for my pet, red for a wolf, brown for a warg , etc?
  • *1999 , , A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 462:
  • *:He'd bought a ton of silver to forge magic swords that would slay the Stark wargs .
  • *2007 , Stephen O Glosecki, Myth in Northwest Europe :
  • *:The monsters are identified not as trolls, a word apparently not available in English at the time, but (among other things) as wargs , whatever that means; Grendel is called a heoro-wearh'' at line 1267 and his mother a ''grund-wyrgen at line 1518.