wag

1. 1.

   move from side to side

   “The happy dog wagged his tail”

   Synonymswaggle

   Broaderjiggle

Other forms of wag

plural

wags·

past tense or participle

wagged

present participle

wagging

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about wag

What does wag mean?

wag means "a witty amusing person who makes jokes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wag?

wag has 1 syllable: wag. In IPA it is /ˈwæɡ/.

What is another word for wag?

Close synonyms include wit, card, waggle, shake, waggle. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is wag a common word?

wag is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.