waggle

verb

1. (transitive)To move (something) with short, quick motions; to wobble.

   “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.”

   “Oscar turned to someone who wasn't there and waggled his head. "Hoo, boy," he said.”

2. (transitive)To quickly raise and lower in rapid succession, usually as an implication of slyness, smugness, or suggestiveness.
3. (intransitive)To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.

   “I know you by the waggling of your head.”

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

   “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.”

noun

1. An instance of waggling.
2. A wobbling motion.

   “Give the cable a waggle to let it come out quicker.”

3. The preliminary swinging of the club head back and forth over the ball in the line of the proposed stroke.