Wagged vs Waged - What's the difference?
wagged | waged |
(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.
(wage)
An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually expressed on an hourly basis.
To wager, bet.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:My life I never held but as a pawn / To wage against thy enemies.
:(Hakluyt)
To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:too weak to wage an instant trial with the king
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:to wake and wage a danger profitless
To employ for wages; to hire.
*:
*:Thenne said Arthur I wille goo with yow / Nay said the kynges ye shalle not at this tyme / for ye haue moche to doo yet in these landes / therfore we wille departe / and with the grete goodes that we haue goten in these landes by youre yeftes we shalle wage good knyghtes & withstande the kynge Claudas malyce
*(Raphael Holinshed) (1529-1580)
*:abundance of treasure which he had in store, wherewith he might wage soldiers
(label) To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:[He pondered] which of all his sons was fit / To reign and wage immortal war with wit.
*(Isaac Taylor) (1787–1865)
*:The two are waging war, and the one triumphs by the destruction of the other.
(label) To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:Thoumust wage thy works for wealth.
To give security for the performance of.
:(Burrill)
As verbs the difference between wagged and waged
is that wagged is past tense of wag while waged is past tense of wage.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.