awag

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,^[1]

     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,‎^[2], 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

• Agaw, GAWA, waag

Amanab

Noun

awag

1. grandmother

Ilocano

Alternative forms

• aoag — obsolete

Pronunciation

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

Noun

awag

1. proclamation

   Synonyms: araraw, waragawag

Derived terms

• agawag
• iawag
• umawag