waggle

Significado (Inglês)

Verb

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

Noun

1. An instance of waggling.
2. A wobbling motion.
3. The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Sinônimos

wag

shake

wave

👋

wiggle

wobble

swing

sway

brandish

shimmy

quake

wigwag

wamble

jiggle

wobbling

wriggle

pendulate

pendulum motion

bob up and down

oscillating movement

jigging motion

swing motion

bob

nodding action

bounce

duck

🦆

flourish

hop

jar

🫙

oscillate

quiver

shiver

squirm

swinging

wabble

waddle

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈwaɡəl/

Etimologia (Inglês)

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