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Meaning of wagger | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. One who, or that which, wags.
  2. A truant, notably who ditches school.

Examples

“a finger-wagger”
“waggers of tongues”
“With this mighty resolution framed and glassed, and hung over his bed, along with a pleasing representation of a gleaming eye, bearing the legend, "Thou, God, seest me," he managed by bearing himself humbly among his fellows, or rather, by having humility thrust upon him, to avert for a period such calamity as doth befall the Sunday swimmer, the fruit stealer, the school wagger, the root smoker, the Chinaman pelter, and the window smasher.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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