Meaning of waggable | Babel Free

Definitions

Capable of wagging.

Examples

“Note⟳ : In Scenes II and XI, music is called for, and this is furnished by the Volunteer⟳ Firemen's Band, led by Eddie Simpson, who wears waggable whiskers and is always two notes behind his colleagues as to melody.”

“If you lean⟳ strongly to emulation of the dog, you may decide⟳ to give⟳ the beast a waggable tail. That would require⟳ only a single double-windlass mechanism.”

“Unlike the tails of most mammals, it isn't as much a flexible appendage as it is a fixed extension of the body, hardly more waggable than a nose or an ear.”

“Indeed, human tongues are waggable, not in the same way that dogs' tails are waggable – human tongues are waggable in far more complex ways, including being mis-waggable and disingenuously waggable – but their dynamic patternings, their synergies of meaningful movement, are articulations on par with comsigns in the animate world at large: synergies of meaningful movement and articulate "signs" – including signs int he form⟳ of words – that virtually all in the species are capable of performing and understanding.”

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