wagger

English

Etymology

From wag +‎ -er.

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Noun

wagger (plural waggers)

1. One who, or that which, wags.

   a finger-wagger

   waggers of tongues

2. A truant, notably who ditches school.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 53:

     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.

Derived terms

• flag-wagger
• tailwagger
• wagger-pagger-bagger
• wienie wagger

Anagrams

• Wragge