wraggle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To wag about with a wiggling motion.

   • I going, he followed, and following fingered me, just as your worship does now; but I struggled and straggled, and wriggled and wraggled, and at last cried vale, valete, as I do now, with this fragment Of a rhyme,
   • We must not fall into the spell of hubris and then justify our cimes and double standards while wraggling our fingers at those we disagree with for doing the same thing.
   • Her husband took off his glasses and wraggled them back and forth as he beamed fondly at her.
2. 2

   To noisily try to convince others.

   • "The crisis of Olympia's destiny will come and pass," Stevens fretted, "and the die be cast against her while her people are wraggling over... 'bonds.'"
   • 'The business of water transportation knows no haggling and wraggling', said the boatman blatantly.
   • Amid the wildest hubbub produced by the shouting, wraggling, jabbering of the owners of the beasts, each man praising the qualities of his own animal as he dragged it to the front, the naval party managed to mount;
3. 3

   To pester.

   • Remember you're tired from wraggling with those nasty customers all day, or pounding out dull, business letters.
   • On the other hand, if he failed to make the pitiable noises Baron Skulkrak seemed to relish, then His Horribleness might surely apply further unpleasant techniques to wraggle that out of his victims.

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