different between waggle vs dodder

English

Etymology

wag +? -le (“(frequentative)”). Compare continental equivalents Middle High German wacken ( > Danish vakle, German wackeln), Swedish vagla, West Frisian waggelje, Low German wackeln, Dutch waggelen.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?wa??l/

  Rhymes: -æ??l

Verb

waggle (third-person singular simple present waggles, present participle waggling, simple past and past participle waggled)

1. (transitive) To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.
   • 1908: Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

     The Mole waggled his toes from sheer happiness, spread his chest with a sigh of full contentment, and leaned back blissfully into the soft cushions.

2. (intransitive) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
   • c. 1598, William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, Act II, Scene 1,^[1]

     I know you by the waggling of your head.

   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, Fables of Æsop and other Eminent Mythologists: with Morals and Reflections, 8th edition, London: A. Bettesworth et. al., 1738, Anianus’s Fables, Fab. 222, p. 239,^[2]

     Why do you go Nodding and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin.

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, “British Columbia Nightingale,”^[3]

     The tassel on the end of his pigtail waggled all down the path and, as he turned out of the gate, it gave a special little flip.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

waggle (plural waggles)

1. A wobbling motion.
2. (golf) The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.

Anagrams

• waggel

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?d?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English daderen (“to quake, tremble”)

Verb

dodder (third-person singular simple present dodders, present participle doddering, simple past and past participle doddered)

1. (intransitive) To shake or tremble as one moves, especially as of old age or childhood; to totter.
   • 2013, J. M. Coetzee, The Childhood of Jesus, Melbourne, Australia: The Text Publishing Company, pp. 59-60.

     Their neighbours have been, on one side, an old man who dodders around in his dressing gown talking to himself, and on the other a stand-offish couple who pretend not to understand the Spanish he speaks.

Derived terms

• dodderer
• doddering (adjective)
• doddery

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English doder (“flax dodder”), from Middle Dutch *dôder, from Old Dutch *doder, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dodr.

Noun

dodder (countable and uncountable, plural dodders)

1. Any of about 100-170 species of yellow, orange or red (rarely green) parasitic plants of the genus Cuscuta. Formerly treated as the only genus in the family Cuscutaceae, it is now placed in the morning glory family, Convolvulaceae.

Synonyms

• angel hair, devil's guts, devil's hair, devil's ringlet, goldthread, hailweed, hairweed, hellbine, love vine, pull-down, strangleweed, witch's hair

Derived terms

• buttonbush dodder, Cuscuta cephalanthi
• Chilean dodder, Cuscuta suaveolens or Cuscuta racemosa var. chileana
• clover dodder, Cuscuta epithymum
• common dodder, Cuscuta gronovii
• compact dodder, Cuscuta compacta
• cusp dodder, Cuscuta cuspidata
• European dodder, Cuscuta europaea
• field dodder, Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta pentagona
• flax dodder, Cuscuta epilinum
• golden dodder, Cuscuta campestris
• greater dodder, Cuscuta europaea
• hazel dodder, Cuscuta coryli
• large-seeded alfalfa dodder, Cuscuta campestris or Cuscuta approximata
• laurel dodder (Cassytha spp.)
• lesser dodder, Cuscuta epithymum
• linseed dodder, Camelina sativa
• little-seed alfalfa dodder, Cuscuta indecora
• rope dodder, Cuscuta glomerata
• small-seeded alfalfa dodder, Cuscuta indecora
• smartweed dodder, Cuscuta polygonorum
• swamp dodder, Cuscuta gronovii
• thyme dodder, Cuscuta epithymum

Translations

Anagrams

• rodded