wag

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.

To 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.

To go; to proceed; to move; to progress.

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

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

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

To leave; to depart.

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

An oscillating movement.

The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.

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.

A 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.