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Dictionary Entry
An oscillating movement.
In a Sentence
“The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wagwag one
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Poetry examples for “wag”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Turning back to bid me follow
Where I wag my arms and hollo,
Over hedges hasting after
Read full poem →name was Cerberus : he should have three heads, and began
to wag his tail, and play with him for his harping. Then
was there also a very horrible gatekeeper, whose name
Read full poem →Hence wag the tongues of the passing people, saying
In their surmise,
Read full poem →What is it fateful woman, so blear, hardly human?
Why wag your head with turban bound, yellow, red and green?
Are the things so strange and marvellous you see or have seen?
Read full poem →A few light kisses, a few embraces, a reaching around of arms,
The play of shine and shade on the trees as the supple boughs wag,
The delight alone or in the rush of the streets, or along the fields