waggable

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English

Etymology

From wag +‎ -able.

Adjective

waggable (comparative more waggable, superlative most waggable)

  1. Capable of wagging.
    • 1928, Agnes Porter, Edith S. Isaacs, Rose Albert, Copy, 1928: four full-length plays, page 306:
      Note : In Scenes II and XI, music is called for, and this is furnished by the Volunteer Firemen's Band, led by Eddie Simpson, who wears waggable whiskers and is always two notes behind his colleagues as to melody.
    • 1984, Nels Winkless, If I had a robot--: what to expect from the personal robot, page 65:
      If you lean strongly to emulation of the dog, you may decide to give the beast a waggable tail. That would require only a single double-windlass mechanism.
    • 1984, Bil Gilbert, In God's Countries, page 7:
      Unlike the tails of most mammals, it isn't as much a flexible appendage as it is a fixed extension of the body, hardly more waggable than a nose or an ear.
    • 2012, Ad Foolen, Ulrike M. Lüdtke, Timothy P. Racine, Moving Ourselves, Moving Others, page 51:
      Indeed, human tongues are waggable, not in the same way that dogs' tails are waggable – human tongues are waggable in far more complex ways, including being mis-waggable and disingenuously waggable – but their dynamic patternings, their synergies of meaningful movement, are articulations on par with comsigns in the animate world at large: synergies of meaningful movement and articulate "signs" – including signs int he form of words – that virtually all in the species are capable of performing and understanding.