English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ wag.

Adjective

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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

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Amanab

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Noun

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awag

  1. grandmother

Ilocano

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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

Noun

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awag

  1. proclamation
    Synonyms: araraw, waragawag

Derived terms

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