waggle

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Động từ

verb

V_es/s

waggles

V_ing/Gerund

waggling

V_ed/pp

waggled

1.
(transitive)To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
2.
(transitive)(transitive, of the eyebrows) To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
3.
(intransitive)To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

waggles

1.
An instance of waggling.
2.
A wobbling motion.
Give the cable a waggle to let it come out quicker.
3.
(golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

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From Middle English wagelen (attested in wagelyng), possibly a borrowing of wagelen; equivalent to wag + -le. Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.