Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to waggle
Participle: waggled
Gerund: waggling
Indicative
Present
| I | waggle |
| you | waggle |
| he;she;it | waggles |
| we | waggle |
| you | waggle |
| they | waggle |
Perfect
| I | have waggled |
| you | have waggled |
| he;she;it | has waggled |
| we | have waggled |
| you | have waggled |
| they | have waggled |
Past
| I | waggled |
| you | waggled |
| he;she;it | waggled |
| we | waggled |
| you | waggled |
| they | waggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had waggled |
| you | had waggled |
| he;she;it | had waggled |
| we | had waggled |
| you | had waggled |
| they | had waggled |
Future
| I | will waggle |
| you | will waggle |
| he;she;it | will waggle |
| we | will waggle |
| you | will waggle |
| they | will waggle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have waggled |
| you | will have waggled |
| he;she;it | will have waggled |
| we | will have waggled |
| you | will have waggled |
| they | will have waggled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | waggle |
| you | waggle |
| he;she;it | waggle |
| we | waggle |
| you | waggle |
| they | waggle |
Perfect
| I | have waggled |
| you | have waggled |
| he;she;it | have waggled |
| we | have waggled |
| you | have waggled |
| they | have waggled |
Imperfect
| I | waggled |
| you | waggled |
| he;she;it | waggled |
| we | waggled |
| you | waggled |
| they | waggled |
Pluperfect
| I | had waggled |
| you | had waggled |
| he;she;it | had waggled |
| we | had waggled |
| you | had waggled |
| they | had waggled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would waggle |
| you | would waggle |
| he;she;it | would waggle |
| we | would waggle |
| you | would waggle |
| they | would waggle |
Perfect
| I | would have waggled |
| you | would have waggled |
| he;she;it | would have waggled |
| we | would have waggled |
| you | would have waggled |
| they | would have waggled |
Imperative
| you | waggle |
| we | Let's waggle |
| you | waggle |
Verbs conjugated like 'waggle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'waggle'
daggle,
gaggle,
haggle,
paggle,
raggle,
wangle,
wiggle,
woggle,
angle,
augle,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1440, frequentative of wag (v.). Cf. Du.
waggelen "to waggle," O.H.G.
wagon "to move, shake," Ger.
wackeln "to totter."
2. From Middle English wagelen (attested in wagelyng), possibly a borrowing of Middle Low German wagelen; equivalent to wag + -le (“(frequentative)”). Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.
Verbs referencing "waggle"
German, old spelling
wackeln, Low Saxon wackeln, Low Saxon waggeln, Luxembourgish
wackelen, Cimbrian bégalan, Dutch
waggelen.
Sample Sentences
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The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions. [1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC:]
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Oscar turned to someone who wasn't there and waggled his head. "Hoo, boy," he said. [1958 May, Avram Davidson, “Or All The Seas With Oysters”, in Galaxy Science Fiction, page 56:]
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I know you by the waggling of your head. [1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:]
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Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin. [1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:]
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The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip. [1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small:]