Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗An oscillating movement. · A witty person.
To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief. · To play truant from school. · To go; to proceed; to move; to progress. · To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.
From Middle English waggen, probably from Old English wagian (“to wag, wave, shake”) with reinforcement from Old Norse vaga (“to wag, waddle”); both from Proto-Germanic *wagōną (“to wag”). Related to English way. The verb may be regarded as an iterative or emphatic form of waw (verb), which is often nearly synonymous; it was used, e.g., of a loose tooth. Parallel formations from the same root are the Old Norse vagga feminine, cradle (Swedish vagga, Danish vugge), Swedish vagga (“to rock a cradle”), vugge (“to rock a cradle”), Dutch wagen (“to move”), early modern German waggen (dialectal German wacken) to waver, totter. Compare waggle, verb
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