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Word Meanings - WAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be

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To move one way and the other with quick turns; to shake to and fro; to move vibratingly; to cause to vibrate, as a part of the body; as, to wag the head. No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure. Shak. Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head. Jer. xviii. 16. Note: Wag expresses specifically the motion of the head and body used in buffoonery, mirth, derision, sport, and mockery. (more info) waggen; probably of Scand. origin; cf. Sw. vagga to rock a cradle, vagga cradle, Icel. vagga, Dan. vugge; akin to AS. wagian to move, wag, wegan to bear, carry, G. & D. bewegen to move, and E. weigh.

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  • CLOWNAGE
    Behavior or manners of a clown; clownery. B. Jonson.
  • JESTER
    1. A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool. This . . . was Yorick's skull, the king's jester. Shak. Dressed in the motley garb that jesters wear. Longfellow. 2. A person addicted to jesting, or to indulgence in light and amusing talk. He ambled
  • CLOWN
    Fries. kl clown, dial. Sw. klunn log, Dan. klunt log block, and E. 1. A man of coarse nature and manners; an awkward fellow; an illbred person; a boor. Sir P. Sidney. 2. One who works upon the soil; a rustic; a churl. The clown, the child
  • BUFFOONERY
    The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.
  • BUFFOONISH
    Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.
  • CLOWNISH
    Of or resembling a clown, or characteristic of a clown; ungainly; awkward. "Clownish hands." Spenser. "Clownish mimic." Prior. -- Clown"ish*ly, adv. Syn. -- Coarse; rough; clumsy; awkward; ungainly; rude; uncivil; ill- bred; boorish; rustic;
  • CLOWNISHNESS
    The manners of a clown; coarseness or rudeness of behavior. That plainness which the alamode people call clownishness. Locke.
  • BUFFOONISM
    The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
  • CLOWNERY
    Clownishness. L'Estrange.
  • BUFFOON
    A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew. (more info) of wind, vanity, nonsense, trick), fr. bouffer to puff out, because the buffoons puffed out their
  • BUFFOONLY
    Low; vulgar. Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.

 

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