WAGnoun詞源 1/wæɡ/

• 1

  informalA wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.

  • The World Cup WAGs are a good example of this. The younger girls, nicknamed the ‘hen-night crowd’ and led by Colleen McLoughlin, dance on tables and drink until the early hours while No. 1 WAG Victoria Beckham remains aloof, dining sedately with Ashley Cole’s fiancee, Cheryl Tweedy.
  • In Wimbledon, the tennis WAGs and - just as excitingly - HABs (Husbands and Boyfriends) have been appearing courtside, enthusiastically cheering on their beloved other halves with a degree of style.

wagverb/wæɡ/

• 1

  To swing from side to side, as an animal's tail, or someone's head to express disagreement or disbelief.

  • No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.
  • Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.
• 2

  slangTo play truant from school.

  • "My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "Wag, Sir. Wagging from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's wagging, Sir."
  • They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.
• 3

  obsoleteTo go; to proceed; to move; to progress.

  • "Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."
• 4

  To move continually, especially in gossip; said of the tongue.

  • She's a real gossip: her tongue is always wagging.
• 5

  obsoleteTo leave; to depart.

  • I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.
• 6

  slangball-gamescricketgamesOf the tail (lower order of the batting lineup): to score more runs than expected.

  • The tail wagged.

wagnoun/wæɡ/

• 1

  An oscillating movement.

  • The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.
• 2

  A witty person.

  • Was not my Lord The veryer Wag o'th' two?
  • But being a bit of a wag, and relishing a good joke amazingly, he concluded to have a little fun, and at the same time learn his friend a lesson concerning his negligent custom.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• wild-ass guess
• women's artistic gymnastics