wag

huiskuttaa, heiluttaa

vitsiniekka

heilutus To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
Shakespeare

No discerner durst wag his tongue in censure.

Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

"My misfortunes all began in wagging, Sir; but what could I do, exceptin' wag?" "Excepting what?" said Mr. Carker. "Wag, Sir. Wagging from school." "Do you mean pretending to go there, and not going?" said Mr. Carker. "Yes, Sir, that's wagging, Sir."

They had "wagged it" from school, as they termed it, which..meant truancy in all its forms.

"Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

I will provoke him to 't, or let him wag.

The wag of my dogs tail expresses happiness.''