wag
To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
"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."
(chiefly obsolete) To go; to proceed; to move; to progress.
"Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
(obsolete) To leave; to depart.
I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.
An oscillating movement.
A witty person.
Was not my Lord / The veryer Wag o'th' two?
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