awag

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English

Etymology

From a- +‎ wag.

Adjective

awag (not comparable)

  1. Wagging.
    The puppies ran up to the girl, their tails all awag.
    • 1887, John A. Martin, “Memories of the March” in Addresses, Topeka: Kansas Publishing House, 1888,
      The men are as silent as if they were dumb. Then something sets all their tongues awag, and the woods and fields echo with their shouts and laughter.
    • 1961, Maxine Kumin, “Rehabilitation Center”, in Halfway,‎, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, page 23:
      In the good suburb, in the bursting season,
      their canes awag in the yellow day,
      the newly maimed mince back to danger.
    • 1985, Anthony Burgess, chapter 3, in The Kingdom of the Wicked, London: Hutchinson:
      […] the walk: undulant, the buttocks awag, the breasts thrust upward by some ingenuity of corsetage.

Anagrams

Amanab

Noun

awag

  1. grandmother

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Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: a‧wag
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔawaɡ/

Noun

awag

  1. proclamation
    Synonyms: araraw, waragawag

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