waggle

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WAGGLE, verb intransitive To waddle; to reel or move from side to side. Why do you go nodding and waggling so? WAGGLE, verb transitive To move one way and the other; as, a bird waggles its tail.
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