Zagged vs Wagged - What's the difference?
zagged | wagged |
(zag)
to move with a sharp turn or reversal
(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.
As verbs the difference between zagged and wagged
is that zagged is (zag) while wagged is (wag).zagged
English
Verb
(head)zag
English
Verb
(zagg)- ''I guess I zigged when I should have zagged .
Derived terms
* zig when one should zagDerived terms
* zigzagSee also
* zig ----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.