What's the difference between gaggle and waggle?

Gaggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To make a noise like a goose; to cackle.
  • (v. i.) A flock of wild geese.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) We also hear of a radio streaming service that will challenge Pandora and Spotify, and there's the usual gaggle of iPhone, iPad, and Mac variations.
  • (2) The warmest cheers came for the NHS ("not for sale", warned Unison's Dave Prentis), for attacks on the banks or (Unite's Len McCluskey) that "gaggle of public schoolboys on the make" who run the coalition.
  • (3) The gaggle of lawyers acting for the celebrities suing the newspaper argue that all News Corp has done is move from the "one rogue" – referring to the already jailed Goodman – to a "two rogue" strategy.
  • (4) On the one hand I was already too western for the gaggle of parents who brought us up communally (“You want to study English?
  • (5) The gaggle today is just today’s pool with the addition of a few others here at the White House.” Some outlets lingered in the West Wing hallway out of frustration but were asked by a Secret Service agent, upon instructions from the White House press office, to leave the area.
  • (6) I won’t do it again.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (7) The crowd has a right to do what they want, to cheer for whoever they want.” But he was cheery enough later, stopping to sign balls for a gaggle of ball-kids on his way to interview.
  • (8) It feels like a scene from Goodfellas, except instead of gangsters and gumars there's a gaggle of photography assistants nervously working around Ross.
  • (9) It's easy to forget, watching him talk, viewing old films, even seeing him goof about with a gaggle of kids in Fading Gigolo, that Allen is the product of pre-war New York.
  • (10) "Watergate and Vietnam served ... to erode the authority I think the president needs to be effective, especially in the national security area," opined the vice-president to a gaggle of reporters in the cabin of Air Force Two, as they flew over the Middle East.
  • (11) And, as in paradise, there were angels: a gaggle of ragged smiling children had gathered at our door, chattering excitedly.
  • (12) FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) Gaggle waiting for Christie in Fort Lee, NJ.
  • (13) After school last week, a gaggle of African children heading home with their satchels waved at the elderly Italian men lined up on chairs for a gossip outside the barber shop.
  • (14) Without fanfare or advertising, Nando's has woven itself into the fabric of UK society over the past few years, popping up on high streets across the country to serve everyone from happy families to lunching workers, from gaggling teens to dating couples.
  • (15) We have come too far – in our football stadiums and on our streets – for us to permit the thuggery of a gaggle of drunks to define us and our Britain in 2015.
  • (16) Spilling out of the Eastern Comfort hostel, which floats on Berlin's river Spree, a gaggle of Spanish tourists in town for a week of clubbing poses for the customary snapshots at one of the city's most iconic images.
  • (17) The “gaggle” with Sean Spicer , the White House press secretary, took place in lieu of his daily briefing and was originally scheduled as an on-camera event.
  • (18) Kate got to do some arts and crafts with a gaggle of boisterous school children who thought they were meeting Princess Elsa from Disney’s Frozen.
  • (19) On 20 April, he announced his alternative currency to a gaggle of online followers.
  • (20) But things got really weird when I found on Friday a gaggle of police near the Guardian office randomly questioning a 41-year-old Iranian national.

Waggle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
  • (v. t.) To move frequently one way and the other; to wag; as, a bird waggles his tail.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "Other than waggling, they don't have articulation."
  • (2) Lord Turner replies that neither the BoE nor the FSA were making a "regulatory instruction" (just a waggle of Merv's eyebrows?).
  • (3) Instead, all we've seen so far is waving and waggling, and that's not for me.
  • (4) Experiments on the division of labour in honeybee hives have revealed why some bees do the waggle dance while others nurse their queens.
  • (5) Back in Budapest, watching Charli and her all-girl band on stage, it's easy to see the appeal: live, she is a force, years of arena support slots whirled into a show full of wild mane-flicking, stomping, impressive back bends and tongue-waggling.
  • (6) Precocial copulation in 2-wk.-old male chicks, described behaviorally as free mount, tread, posterior contact, waggle, peek, and seize, was developed through hand-training experience and androgen treatment.
  • (7) Health secretary Jeremy Hunt might also be waggling a toe over the water with a column in the Telegraph today setting out how he thinks Britain could stay in the single market but not with that pesky free movement element: “a Norway-plus option”.
  • (8) In the courtroom below it was elbow-waggling room only as the usual throng of briefs and their bagmen were swamped by a crush of interested parties, among them a smattering of furrowed-looking men in replica shirts who would keep a determined vigil throughout the day.
  • (9) Farage wore the look of a man ground down by repetition; a man who knew that every aside, every waggled eyebrow, every non-joke that sounded like a joke because it was inexplicably delivered in a jokey see-saw cadence, would be greeted by the Ukip faithful with the same graceless “weeeeey” noise that daytime drinkers make in crap pubs whenever the barmaid drops a glass.
  • (10) Photograph: Rex Features Rest assured that Riva's waggling feet do not feature in the final cut of Amour – a film that sticks largely to the same book-lined apartment, keeping pace with its characters as they move inexorably towards the exit door.
  • (11) When performing their famous " waggle dance ", they even use an inbuilt clock to make allowances for the shift in the position of the sun during the time elapsed since they have flown back to the hive.
  • (12) If you could zoom out beyond the moon, beyond time itself, and picture the entirety of humankind since its creation to its eventual end, and somethow witness it repeatedly pinging the phrase PLEASE AUTHENTICATE MY EXISTENCE back and forth between itself, we'd probably resemble a squirming galaxy of bees endlessly performing needy little waggle dances in front of each other, minus the useful pollen co-ordinates.
  • (13) 1996 Michael Jackson's messianic performance of his new single, Earth Song, proved too much for Jarvis Cocker, who clambered on stage and waggled his bum defiantly in the King of Pop's direction, before being escorted away by security.
  • (14) "Then we work like this," she waggles her tongue with the rapaciousness of Michael Douglas, "and then we pick ourselves again."
  • (15) For three decades, the Brit awards have entertained the masses with fluffs, gaffes, pranks and waggled bums, while gathering the great and good of the music industry for an evening of back-slapping and recognition of the year's achievements.
  • (16) If their plastic grips and waggling antennae bore a passing resemblance to a £15 novelty golf ball finder, that was no coincidence.
  • (17) Her song finished second in the Austrian competition after Trackshittaz's hip-hop atrocity Woki Mit Deim Popo ("Waggle your arse"), but this year the national broadcaster, ORF, chose Conchita as the country's representative.
  • (18) Saenko then barges into Marchena, prompting the referee to waggle his finger at both of them.
  • (19) "I have panic attacks and I have breakdowns, and stuff like that, so I feel like if I'm just like la la la la la …" she waggles her head as if it's in the clouds.
  • (20) Behind Henson, Frank Oz was adjusting Miss Piggy, doing her splendid diva head-waggle as she addressed her "Kermie".