Thesaurus results for WAGGLED

waggled

verb

past tense of waggle

as in flapped

to move from side to side or up and down with quick jerky motions the rabbit waggled its ears and hopped away

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Recent Examples of waggled Pebbles twitched, branches waggled, cholla wiggled, weeds erupted then dried up and died. — Alina Hartounian, NPR, 20 Apr. 2026

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Above the dancers flapped a ring of American flags, each representing a military veteran from the community who had passed away.

— Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026
Luna then tried to jump over Sandy to get back into the bowl of the nest, but Sandy lost her balance and flapped down to the lower branches.

— Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 16 July 2026

Definition of flapped

Verb

Paul Marie flicked a ball off the outside of his foot to Judd, who scored on a volley from the edge of the 6-yard box to give the Earthquakes a 3-0 lead in the 29th.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
Reus played a free kick from near the left end line to the near post, where Klauss flicked in a header in the 76th minute.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of flicked

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No hit for you Caminero leaped to his left to snag Steven Kwan’s hard liner to third in the fifth and then wagged his finger toward the batter.

— Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Caminero leaped to his left to snag Steven Kwan's hard liner to third in the fifth and then wagged a finger toward the batter.

— ABC News, ABC News, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of wagged

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Waiters swished past with little pots of lemon sorbet and glasses of Sprankel, a sparkling wine from Babylonstoren, Roos and Bekker’s farm and hotel in South Africa’s Franschhoek wine valley.

— Mary Holland, Travel + Leisure, 18 July 2026
This was supposed to be magic, swished in from waaaaay downtown.

— Candace Buckner, New York Times, 27 June 2026

Definition of swished

Verb

On a recent morning, surfers bobbed in the water off North Beach, not far from the rocky structure shoring up the train tracks by the sea.

— ABC News, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026
As the balloon carrying the cauldron rose and bobbed a couple hundred feet overhead, many got busy taking photos and recording videos and selfies.

— Hannah Bloch, NPR, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of bobbed

Verb

During the test, Linton jerked and twitched in what prosecutors described as an attempt to fake a seizure.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026
Somewhere nearby, in a dark office, an eavesdropping oreja has just jerked to attention on his hard little chair.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Sep. 2026

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