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wag tail

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  • wag|tail — «WAG TAYL», noun. 1. any one of various small birds that have a slender body with a long tail that they habitually move up and down, such as a species of Great Britain or either of the pipits of North America. 2. U.S. a) one of the water thrushes …   Useful english dictionary

  • wag·tail — /ˈwægˌteıl/ noun, pl tails [count] : a small European bird that has a long tail which regularly moves up and down …   Useful english dictionary

  • wag the dog — To wag the dog means to purposely divert attention from what would otherwise be of greater importance, to something else of lesser significance. By doing so, the lesser significant event is catapulted into the limelight, drowning proper attention …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • Wag (disambiguation) — Wag is a highland district in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia and was once a medieval province.Wag can also be: *A verb expressing a rocking movement, as in the wagging of a dog s tail, or the motion of chemical bonds *A verb referring to truancy… …   Wikipedia

  • tail|wag|ging — «TAYL WAG ihng», noun. a wide turn at high speed, made with the skis parallel …   Useful english dictionary

  • wag — wag1 [wag] vt. wagged, wagging [ME waggen, prob. < ON vaga, to move back and forth, rock, akin to OE wagian, to shake, totter < IE base * weĝh , to move > L vehere, to carry] 1. a) to cause (something fastened or held at one end) to move …   English World dictionary

  • wag — [[t]wæ̱g[/t]] wags, wagging, wagged 1) VERB When a dog wags its tail, it repeatedly waves its tail from side to side. [V n] The dog was biting, growling and wagging its tail. 2) VERB If you wag your finger, you shake it repeatedly and quickly… …   English dictionary

  • wag´ger — wag1 «wag», verb, wagged, wag|ging, noun. –v.t. 1. to cause to wag: »The dog wagged its tail. Her highborne turban d head she wags and rolls her darkling eye (Walt Whitman). 2. to move (the …   Useful english dictionary

  • wag — I. /wæg / (say wag) verb (wagged, wagging) –verb (t) 1. to move from side to side, forwards and backwards, or up and down, especially rapidly and repeatedly: the dog wagged its tail. 2. to move (the tongue) in talking. 3. to shake (a finger) at… …  

  • wag — I UK [wæɡ] / US verb [intransitive/transitive] Word forms wag : present tense I/you/we/they wag he/she/it wags present participle wagging past tense wagged past participle wagged 1) if a dog wags its tail, it moves its tail from one side to the… …   English dictionary

  • wag — wag1 [wæg] v past tense and past participle wagged present participle wagging [Date: 1200 1300; : Old English; Origin: wagian to shake ] 1.) [I and T] if a dog wags its tail, or if its tail wags, the dog moves its tail many times from one side to …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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