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  • adjective Frequently waggling.

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Examples

  • “Okay,” I croaked, waving bye to him with waggly fingers.

    Stupid Cupid Rhonda Stapleton 2009

  • A big fat belly, two waggly eyebrows and a CV including a drearily long film about a big monkey?

    Nothing Exciting Happens At The MTV Awards 2006

  • Rob and I have stood 50th in the queue for 20 minutes before now, with a straggly waggly toddler and a trolley full of luggage.

    Trip to Galway, Aran, and back again ailbhe 2005

  • Lancelot, Sir Palimedes, Sir Bors, Sir Gawain, and fought them in couples till only Sir Lamorac, whom he had selected for a specially stout stalk, had his head on, and even he, after three encounters, looked worn and waggly.

    Awakening 2004

  • Their milk teeth being waggly, he bit the green casing through for them; and they fished out the kernels for themselves.

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • Besides our freckles, our waggly tails, and our long floppy ears, my friend Jessie and I have something very important in common: we are cheese fanatics.

    THROW ME A BONE Cooper Gillespie 2003

  • Gawain, and fought them in couples till only Sir Lamorac, whom he had selected for a specially stout stalk, had his head on, and even he, after three encounters, looked worn and waggly.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • Gawain, and fought them in couples till only Sir Lamorac, whom he had selected for a specially stout stalk, had his head on, and even he, after three encounters, looked worn and waggly.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • But if you admire big waggly ears, and a tail like a paint-brush, and hoofs big enough for an elephant, and a long neck and a body so skinny that one can count the ribs with one eye shut -- if that's your idea of beauty,

    The Lost Princess of Oz 1887

  • Mother used to offer us sixpence a tooth when they grew waggly, and we pulled them out without any fuss.

    The Heart of Una Sackville George de Horne Vaizey 1887

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