waggle

Meanings

1. To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
2. To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
3. To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

1. An instance of waggling.
2. A wobbling motion.
3. The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Etymology

From Middle English wagelen (attested in wagelyng), possibly a borrowing of Middle Low German wagelen; equivalent to wag + -le (“(frequentative)”). Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.