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To swing from side to side, especially of an animal's tail

* Shakespeare

No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.

* Bible, Jer. xviii. 16

Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

(UK, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.

* 1848 , Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii

"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."

* 1901 , William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13

They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.

(obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; to get along; to progress; to stir.

* Shakespeare

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

(obsolete) To go; to depart.

* Shakespeare

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