Dogs wag their tails and cats swish theirs.
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Wag
//wæɡ//
Synonyms for "wag" (140 found)
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Closest matches (28)
Strong matches (42)
Related words (70)
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More general
6 entriesRelated terms
4 entriescoordinate
2 entriesderived
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
etymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
2 entriesmanner of
1 entriesrelated to
19 entriesShowing 16 of 19 words.
similar
1 entriesTranslations
103 translations across 32 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- σαίνω verb (to swing from side to side)
Breton
1 entries- ober skol al louarn verb (to skip school)
Bulgarian
3 entries- шегобиец noun (witty person)
- бягам от училище verb (to skip school)
- клатя verb (to swing from side to side)
Catalan
3 entries- cuada noun (oscillating movement)
- remenada noun (oscillating movement)
- remenar verb (to swing from side to side)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- با دان verb (to swing from side to side)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 曠課 /旷课 verb (to skip school)
- 翹課 /翘课 verb (to skip school)
- 逃學 /逃学 verb (to skip school)
- 逃課 /逃课 verb (to skip school)
Czech
1 entries- šibal noun (witty person)
Danish
1 entries- logre verb (to swing from side to side)
Dutch
2 entries- kwispelen verb (to swing from side to side)
- spijbelen verb (to skip school)
Esperanto
1 entries- svingi verb (to swing from side to side)
Finnish
4 entries- (momentane) huiskaus noun (oscillating movement)
- heilutus noun (oscillating movement)
- huiskutus noun (oscillating movement)
- neropatti noun (witty person)
French
4 entries- faire l’école buissonnière verb (to skip school)
- frétiller verb (to swing from side to side)
- remuer verb (to swing from side to side)
- sécher verb (to skip school)
Galician
3 entries- abanar verb (to swing from side to side)
- brandear verb (to swing from side to side)
- latar verb (to skip school)
German
4 entries- Schelm noun (witty person)
- Wedeln noun (oscillating movement)
- schwänzen verb (to skip school)
- wedeln verb (to swing from side to side)
Greek
1 entries- κουνώ verb (to swing from side to side)
Hungarian
4 entries- (joker, funster) mókamester noun (witty person)
- csóválás noun (oscillating movement)
- farkcsóválás noun (oscillating movement)
- kópé noun (witty person)
Irish
2 entries- croith verb (to swing from side to side)
- luasc verb (to swing from side to side)
Italian
3 entries- scodinzolio noun (oscillating movement)
- marinare la scuola verb (to skip school)
- scodinzolare verb (to swing from side to side)
Japanese
2 entries- 振る verb (to swing from side to side)
- 揺れる verb (to swing from side to side)
Khmer
1 entries- បក់ verb (to swing from side to side)
Mongolian
1 entries- шарвах verb (to swing from side to side)
Māori
4 entries- naho noun (witty person)
- takawheta verb (to swing from side to side)
- takawhetawheta verb (to swing from side to side)
- takē kura verb (to skip school)
Norwegian
2 entries- logre verb (to swing from side to side)
- skulke verb (to skip school)
Polish
4 entries- machać verb (to swing from side to side)
- machnąć verb (to swing from side to side)
- merdać verb (to swing from side to side)
- merdnąć verb (to swing from side to side)
Portuguese
4 entries- gracejador noun (witty person)
- abanar verb (to swing from side to side)
- dar ao rabo verb (to swing from side to side)
- vaguear verb (to skip school)
Romanian
1 entries- chiuli verb (to skip school)
Russian
4 entries- виля́ние noun (oscillating movement)
- остря́к noun (witty person)
- шутни́к noun (witty person)
- виля́ть verb (to swing from side to side)
Scots
1 entries- linkie noun (witty person)
Spanish
3 entries- colear verb (to swing from side to side)
- menear verb (to swing from side to side)
- rabear verb (to swing from side to side)
Swedish
3 entries- lustigkurre noun (witty person)
- skolka verb (to skip school)
- vifta verb (to swing from side to side)
Turkish
3 entries- (okulu) asmak verb (to skip school)
- kırmak verb (to skip school)
- sallamak verb (to skip school)
Welsh
2 entries- siglo verb (to swing from side to side)
- ysgwyd verb (to swing from side to side)
Sample sentences
29 total sentences available.
Tom used to wag school a lot when he was a kid.
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All but two members of the Conservative Party lost their seats in a federal election. One wag joked that their entire caucus could now meet in a telephone booth.
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I'm not going to wag my tail when they arrive.
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