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Wigging vs Wagging - What's the difference?

wigging | wagging |

As verbs the difference between wigging and wagging

is that wigging is while wagging is .

As nouns the difference between wigging and wagging

is that wigging is (uncountable) the action of the verb to wig while wagging is the motion of something that is wagged.

wigging

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to wig .
  • (countable, British, Ireland, colloquial, dated) A telling-off or reprimand.
  • * 1888 , , "Thrown Away", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 18)
    • His Colonel talked to him severely when the cold weather ended. That made him more wretched than ever; and it was only an ordinary ‘Colonel's wigging ’!

    wagging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The motion of something that is wagged.
    • the waggings of a dog's tail