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UK
/wˈæɡɪʃ/
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ADJECTIVE
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witty or joking
Muskrat Castle as the house has been facetiously named by some waggish officer
How To Use waggish In A Sentence
- Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson - USATODAY. com Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
- To return to Franklin, this didactically waggish man blandly assured English readers that it was grand to see the whales leap like salmon up the falls of Niagara.
- Heyer was never taken seriously by her contemporary critics "waggishly frolicsome, pertly paced", but "Regency Buck" and most of her other novels are still in print. A Sweet Spot in Literary History
- Mrs. Dickinson, presently "coming up with" Rosamund's party, became absolutely "waggish" (the Dean's expression), and made Rosamund laugh with that almost helpless spontaneity which is the greatest compliment to a joke. In the Wilderness
- Still, there is an irony to it that may appeal to Boris's waggish nature.
- Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson Lens won't stray from waggish TNT trio of Barkley, Smith and Johnson
- The oilcloth which covers the long table is so greasy that a waggish externe will write his name on the surface, using his thumb-nail as a style. Father Goriot
- The chicaly bird began his musical quick cuckoo cry, the corrosou tolled out his bell notes, the "waggish kinds of Monkeys" screamed and chattered in the branches, playing "a thousand antick Tricks. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.
- All this time Id been anticipating Id die f! rom something interesting, similar to a black hole caused by a Hadron Collider, or a little waggish accident involving super-heated marshmallow goo as good as inter-dimensional gods. Archive 2009-12-01
- Oh clever-clogs, so knowing, so waggish. Times, Sunday Times