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wag | waw |

As verbs the difference between wag and waw

is that wag is while waw is (obsolete) to stir; move; wave.

As a noun waw is

(obsolete|water) a (l) or waw can be a wall or waw can be the twenty-seventh letter of the arabic alphabet:.

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

    * ----

    waw

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) wawen, .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To stir; move; wave.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wawe, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete, water) A (l).
  • * , II.xii:
    • nigh it drawes / All passengers, that none from it can shift: / For whiles they fly that Gulfes deuouring iawes, / They on this rock are rent, and sunck in helplesse wawes .

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) . Cognate with Scots (m), (m).

    Alternative forms

    * * (Scotland)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A wall

    • Etymology 4

    From (etyl) . * Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ** Last: ** Next:

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: .

    • Anagrams

    * English palindromes ----