Wagged vs Vagged - What's the difference?
wagged | vagged |
(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.
(vag)
Vulva.
To arrest somebody as a vagrant.
* 2002 , T. R. St. George, Clyde Strikes Back (page 250)
As verbs the difference between wagged and vagged
is that wagged is (wag) while vagged is (vag).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.
See also
* skivitisReferences
* The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989)Anagrams
* ----vagged
English
Verb
(head)vag
English
Etymology 1
Abbreviation of vagina.English abbreviationsNoun
Etymology 2
Abbreviation of vagrant.Verb
(en-verb)- But I seen on the TV it was colder'n a witch's tit here so I stayed. Stuck it out. Then I caught a freight and got vagged .