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# waggle

«waggle» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move something quickly from side to side or up and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (waggle, waggles, waggled, waggling); noun (a waggle)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To move something quickly from side to side or up and down: waggle your fingers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#m1)

2) (noun) A quick small movement like this: the dog's tail gave a waggle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used for playful movements of fingers, ears, eyebrows, tails and loose teeth; in science, honeybees do a "waggle dance" to show other bees where food is. Phrases: waggle your fingers, waggle your eyebrows, waggle dance, give it a waggle.

### examples

- Can you waggle your ears? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x1)
- The puppy waggled its tail when it saw me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x2)
- She waggled her loose tooth with her tongue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x3)
- Honeybees do a waggle dance to show where the flowers are. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x4)
- Give the plug a waggle if the lamp flickers — no, unplug it first and tell an adult. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x5)
- He waggled his eyebrows to make us laugh. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x6)
- Waggle your fingers to warm them up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x7)
- At a little to their right there was a thin uncomely bridge that waggled across the torrent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/#x8)

### note

Regular verb: waggled, waggling. Close to "wag" (a tail wags) and "wiggle" (twist about); waggle is a bit bigger and sillier than wag.

### In the corpora

- [A honeybee does a waggle dance to tell other bees where to find flowers.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/72-insects-and-spiders/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «waggle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/waggle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.