waggerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From wag +‎ -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

名詞

wagger (plural waggers)

1. One who, or that which, wags.

   a finger-wagger    waggers of tongues

2. A truant, notably who ditches school.
   • 1913, Norman Lindsay, “(please specify the page)”, in A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney, N.S.W.: N.S.W. Bookstall, →OCLC:

     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.

派生語

• flag-wagger
• tailwagger
• wienie wagger

語源 2

Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.

名詞

wagger (plural waggers)

1. (originally Oxford University slang, now British slang, humorous, dated) Ellipsis of wagger-pagger-bagger.

アナグラム

• Wragge