The word 'wag' is correct and can be used in written English.
It has multiple meanings and uses, but its most common definition is to move back and forth or side to side repeatedly. Example: The dog's tail began to wag excitedly when his owner returned home. The politician tried to wag his way out of the scandal by deflecting blame onto his colleagues. The tree branches started to wag in the wind. The toddler laughed as she watched the colorful pendulum wag back and forth.
(The wag who wrote the wire report failed to note that in 2012, the minister also uploaded a few book reviews as well).
I find it quite refreshing to see any woman on TV saying that she actually wants to work for a living rather than just become a Wag.
You can wag a finger at non-voters, telling them about the millions around the world who would willingly risk lives to evict dictators.
President Putin has shown up after an unexplained 10-day absence and, as one wag on Twitter said, looks in pretty good shape considering he died on Thursday, fathered a "love child" on Friday and was overthrown in a coup on Saturday.
"Not so much BBC News 24," says one corporation wag, "as BBC News 11am-to-6pm-on-weekdays".
The view seemed to be that any loss to creditors would be cancelled out by gains to debtors; net world debt is zero, as a wag recently tweeted.
Partly hidden by tall grass, their tails wag happily as they snuffle around for roots and insects.
The hero listens to a Walkman but the plot is ageless: the soul of a young man who loved but could not marry must be exorcised from his surviving sweetheart.More prosaically, illusion is manufactured to serve political ends in Barry Levinson's uncannily prescient "Wag the Dog", which won the special jury prize at the festival.
And it will put pressure on the Westminster government, still known abroad as the British government, to find ways of ensuring that the Scottish tail does not wag the English dog again.
Such was the excitement generated by de Lesseps's project, and not only in France, that in no time a literary wag had turned it into a palindrome: A MAN, A PLAN, A CANAL PANAMA is still one of the longest palindromic phrases in the English language.Excitement in France was one thing.
Wag the dog A medical matryoshka doll Butterfly ball ReprintsAs they report in Current Biology, they wired up several dozen dogs of both sexes and various breeds with electrodes, to record the animals' heart rates, and then showed them videos of dogs, or silhouettes of dogs, head-on, with tail wagging to left or right.
