Meanings
wagger1
plural waggers
- One who, or that which, wags.
a finger-wagger waggers of tongues
- A truant, notably who ditches school.
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With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.
1913, Norman Lindsay, “(please specify the page)”, in A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney, N.S.W.: N.S.W. Bookstall, →OCLC
wagger2
plural waggers
- BritishabbreviationdatedellipsishumorousslangEllipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.
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Polish osoba kiwająca się
- osoba kiwająca sięone who, or that which, wags
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wagger. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wagger
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