'WAG' definitions:
Definition of 'wag'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Wag'
From: GCIDE
- Wag \Wag\, n. [From Wag, v.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of wagging; a shake; as, a wag of the head. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Perhaps shortened from wag-halter a rogue.] A man full of sport and humor; a ludicrous fellow; a humorist; a wit; a joker. [1913 Webster]
- We wink at wags when they offend. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- A counselor never pleaded without a piece of pack thread in his hand, which he used to twist about a finger all the while he was speaking; the wags used to call it the thread of his discourse. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wag'
From: GCIDE
- Wag \Wag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Wagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Wagging.] [OE. waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh. [root]136. See Weigh.] To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. [1913 Webster]
- No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. --Jer. xviii. 16. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wag'
From: GCIDE
- Wag \Wag\, v. i.
- 1. To move one way and the other; to be shaken to and fro; to vibrate. [1913 Webster]
- The resty sieve wagged ne'er the more. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To go; to depart; to pack oft. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'wag'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad boy,
- banana,
- beat,
- bob,
- bobble,
- booger,
- brandish,
- buffoon,
- bugger,
- burlesquer,
- card,
- careen,
- caricaturist,
- clown,
- coggle,
- comedian,
- comic,
- cutup,
- dangle,
- devil,
- droll,
- elf,
- enfant terrible,
- epigrammatist,
- farceur,
- flap,
- flaunt,
- float,
- flourish,
- fluctuate,
- flutter,
- fly,
- funmaker,
- funnyman,
- gag writer,
- gagman,
- gagster,
- hood,
- hoodlum,
- hooligan,
- humorist,
- imp,
- ironist,
- jester,
- joker,
- jokesmith,
- jokester,
- kidder,
- knave,
- lampooner,
- lash,
- librate,
- little devil,
- little monkey,
- little rascal,
- lurch,
- madcap,
- minx,
- mischief,
- mischief-maker,
- nutate,
- oscillate,
- parodist,
- pendulate,
- pitch,
- pixie,
- practical joker,
- prankster,
- puck,
- punner,
- punster,
- quipster,
- rapscallion,
- rascal,
- reel,
- reparteeist,
- resonate,
- rock,
- rogue,
- roll,
- rowdy,
- ruffian,
- satirist,
- scamp,
- scapegrace,
- shake,
- show-off,
- squirm,
- swag,
- sway,
- swing,
- swinging,
- switch,
- take,
- toss,
- twist and turn,
- twitch,
- undulate,
- vacillate,
- vibrate,
- waggle,
- wagwit,
- wave,
- waver,
- wield,
- wiggle,
- wigwag,
- wisecracker,
- wit,
- witling,
- wobble,
- wriggle,
- writhe,
- zany
Acronyms for 'wag'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Wild-Assed Guess (slang, Cygwin)