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  • 21waggle dance — noun A dance in the form of a figure eight performed by the honey bee in order to communicate the direction and distance of patches of flowers, water sources, etc …

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  • 22waggle — Synonyms and related words: beat, bob, bobble, careen, coggle, dangle, fluctuate, flutter, lash, librate, lurch, nutate, oscillate, pendulate, pitch, reel, resonate, rock, roll, shake, squirm, swag, sway, swing, swinging, switch, toss, twist and… …

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  • 23waggle — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. wag, play back and forth, sway, shimmy; see wiggle . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To move to and fro vigorously and usually repeatedly: switch, wag1, wave. See REPETITION. 2. To move (one s arms or wings, for example)… …

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  • 24waggle — wag|gle [ wægl ] verb intransitive or transitive to move up and down or from side to side with short quick movements, or make something move that way: Roger waggled his eyebrows suggestively. ╾ wag|gle noun count …

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  • 25waggle — wag·gle || wægl n. wag, side to side movement (of the tail); swinging, shake; sway v. wag, move from side to side (of the tail); swing, shake; sway …

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  • 26waggle — To move an airplane’s wings up and down while in flight, usually for giving a signal. It is done by making short oscillations about the longitudinal axis …

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  • 27waggle — verb move with short quick movements from side to side or up and down. ↘swing (a golf club) loosely to and fro over the ball before playing a shot. noun an act of waggling. Derivatives waggler noun waggly adjective Origin C16: frequentative of… …

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  • 28waggle — I. v. n. Tottle, toddle, waddle. II. v. a. Wag, shake, move one way and the other …

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  • 29waggle — verb, informal See wag I …

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  • 30waggle — wag·gle …

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