Waggle vs Dodder - What's the difference?
waggle | dodder |
To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
* 1908:
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
* L'Estrange
To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
* 2013, , (The Childhood of Jesus) , Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.
Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta''. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family '' , recent genetic research by the (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group) has shown that it is correctly placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.
As a verb waggle
is to move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.As a noun waggle
is a wobbling motion.As a proper noun dodder is
a river in ireland, a tributary of the liffey.waggle
English
Verb
(waggl)- The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.
- Why do you go nodding and waggling so?
Derived terms
* joystick waggler * waggle dance * waggly * waggler * woggledodder
English
Etymology 1
(etyl)Verb
(en verb)- Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.