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waggle

/wag-uhl/US // ˈwæg əl //UK // (ˈwæɡəl) //

摇摆,摇摆不定,摇晃,摇动

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
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    wag·gled, wag·gling.

    • : to wobble or shake, especially while in motion: The ball waggled slowly to a stop. The leaves of the tree waggled in the wind.
v.有主动词 verb
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    wag·gled, wag·gling.

    • : to move up and down or from side to side in a short, rapid manner; wag: to waggle one's head.
    • : Golf. to make a waggle with.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a waggling motion.
    • : Golf. a swinging movement made with a golf club to and fro over the ball prior to a stroke.

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Examples

  • Waggle your eyebrows at a girl, and she'll ask what's wrong with your eye.

  • He must hold himself ever in readiness to wiggle-waggle in the perpetual Simon-says-thumbs-up game which his crowd is playing.

  • They were twenty small red demons rather like Billy, and the same number of tiny skeletons, all with waggle-some hands and feet.

  • The men dance in a circle, stamping the time; the women waggle round and round the circle, outside it.

  • There he goes, round and round—and now he's asleep—and now he begins to reel—wiggle-waggle—-down he tumbles!

  • Away she darted a few steps, to whirl and point and waggle a finger at the dumfounded youth.