What does waggle mean?

Definitions for waggle
ˈwæg əlwag·gle

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. wag, waggle, shakeverb

    causing to move repeatedly from side to side

  2. wag, waggleverb

    move from side to side

    "The happy dog wagged his tail"

  3. wamble, waggleverb

    move unsteadily or with a weaving or rolling motion

Wiktionary

  1. wagglenoun

    a wobbling motion

  2. waggleverb

    To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.

  3. Etymology: Frequentative form of wag. Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken (> Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Dutch waggelen.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Waggleverb

    To waddle; to move from side to side.

    Etymology: wagghelen, German.

    The sport Basilius would shew to Zelmane, was the mounting of his hawk at a heron, which getting up on his waggling wings with pain, as though the air next to the earth were not fit for his great body to fly through, was now grown to diminish the sight of himself. Philip Sidney.

    Why do you go nodding and waggling so, as if hip-shot? says the goose to her gosseling. Roger L'Estrange.

Wikipedia

  1. waggle

    Waggle dance is a term used in beekeeping and ethology for a particular figure-eight dance of the honey bee. By performing this dance, successful foragers can share information about the direction and distance to patches of flowers yielding nectar and pollen, to water sources, or to new nest-site locations with other members of the colony.The waggle dance and the round dance are two forms of dance behaviour that are part of a continuous transition. As the distance between the resource and the hive increases, the round dance transforms into variations of a transitional dance, which, when communicating resources at even greater distances, becomes the waggle dance. In the case of Apis mellifera ligustica, the round dance is performed until the resource is about 10 metres away from the hive, transitional dances are performed when the resource is at a distance of 20 to 30 metres away from the hive, and finally, when it is located at distances greater than 40 metres from the hive, the waggle dance is performed. However, even close to the nest, the round dance can contain elements of the waggle dance, such as a waggle portion. It has therefore been suggested that the term waggle dance is better for describing both the waggle dance and the round dance.Austrian ethologist and Nobel laureate Karl von Frisch was one of the first who translated the meaning of the waggle dance.

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  1. waggle

    Waggle refers to the action of moving one's body, body part, or object back and forth in small motions, often rapidly or with a degree of vibration, like a dog wagging its tail. It is also used in reference to a dance made by bees to communicate with each other.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Waggleverb

    to reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle

  2. Waggleverb

    to move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail

  3. Etymology: [Freq. of wag; cf. D. waggelen, G. wackeln.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Waggle

    wag′l, v.i. and v.t. to wag or move from side to side. [Freq. of wag (1).]

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WAGGLE

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Waggle is ranked #52037 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Waggle surname appeared 399 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Waggle.

    92.9% or 371 total occurrences were White.
    2.5% or 10 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    2.2% or 9 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.7% or 7 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of waggle in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of waggle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of waggle in a Sentence

  1. James Nieh:

    As a waggle dancer, you’re running forward, rushing at about one body length per second over this open dance floor that has holes in it, you’re surrounded by hundreds and thousands of bees that you have to push out of the way, and it’s in complete darkness.

  2. Paul Siefert:

    While we previously thought that the waggle dance was at best defined by genetics and mechanical capabilities, we now know that there is a social component to learning the dance.

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