Wag
Definitions
- An oscillating movement.
- A wife or girlfriend of a sports star or other celebrity, originally and especially of an association football player.
- Acronym of wild-assed guess; a rough estimate.
- A witty person.
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Acronym of women's artistic gymnastics. abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
Equivalents
Examples
“The wag of my dog's tail expresses happiness.”
“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 nice, juicy steak,” he is said to have⟳ called for, “French fries, apple pie and a cup of coffee.” It is probable that he really said “a coff of cuppee,” however, as he was a wag of the first water and loved a joke as well as the next king.”
“By Wednesday it had already won art-world notoriety, and on Saturday it achieved a public visibility that any artist would envy, after a self-promoting wag tore the banana off the wall and gobbled it up.”
“Many people can't work⟳ from home - as one wag observed: "Well, I would, but the wife doesn't like⟳ me laying tarmac in the front room!"”
“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.”
“They looked her up online and soon began following Ms. Riddle on social media, where she shares her life as a tennis WAG — an acronym for “wives and girlfriends,” popularized in Britain in the mid-2000s to describe⟳, disparagingly, a group of preening, partying women attached to soccer players.”
“WAGs have⟳ taken on a second life in the American sports world, linked to basketball, football and, more recently, Formula 1 and tennis.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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