different between joker vs wag

English

Etymology

joke +? -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

joker (plural jokers)

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.

   Synonyms: court jester, fool, jester

4. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
5. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

6. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
7. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
   • 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)

     Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.

   • 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons (volume 218, page 858)

     Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]

   • 1942, Billboard (volume 54, number 41, page 5)

     Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.

   • 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting (page 12)

     The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.

Related terms

• joke

See also

• ????, ????, ????

Translations

See also

See also

• Wikipedia article on jokers (jesters)
• Wikipedia article on the joker (playing card)
• Wikipedia article on the Joker in Batman

Anagrams

• jerko

Danish

Etymology

From English joker.

Noun

joker

1. joker (playing card)

Declension

Further reading

• “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jo?k?r/
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Noun

joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)

1. joker (playing card)
2. any wild card or similar, even in non-card games

Derived terms

• voor joker staan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o.kœ?/, [d?o??.kœ?]

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. (card games) joker
2. (computing) wildcard
3. (on a game show) lifeline
4. (Scrabble) blank tile

See also

Further reading

• “joker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Alternative forms

• d?oker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.k?r/

Noun

joker m anim

1. (card games) joker

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. Alternative form of jóquer

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French joker, English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??o.k?r/

Noun

joker m (plural jokeri)

1. (card games) joker

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English waggen, probably from Old English wagian (“to wag, wave, shake”) with reinforcement from Old Norse vaga (“to wag, waddle”); both from Proto-Germanic *wag?n? (“to wag”). Related to English way.

The verb may be regarded as an iterative or emphatic form of waw (verb), which is often nearly synonymous; it was used, e.g., of a loose tooth. Parallel formations from the same root are the Old Norse vagga feminine, cradle (Swedish vagga, Danish vugge), Swedish vagga (“to rock a cradle”), Dutch wagen (“to move”), early modern German waggen (dialectal German wacken) to waver, totter. Compare waggle, verb

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wæ?/
• Rhymes: -æ?

Verb

wag (third-person singular simple present wags, present participle wagging, simple past and past participle wagged)

1. To swing from side to side, such as of an animal's tail, or someone's head, to express disagreement or disbelief.
   • Every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and wag his head.

2. (Britain, Australia, slang) To play truant from school.
   • 1848, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, xxii

     "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."

   • 1901, William Sylvester Walker, In the Blood, i. 13

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

3. (obsolete) To be in action or motion; to move; progress.
   • 1623, William Shakespeare, As You Like It Act II

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

4. (obsolete) To go; to depart.

Coordinate terms

• (swing from side to side): nod, no

Derived terms

• awag
• finger-wag
• wag it

Translations

See also

• waggle (frequentative)
• wiggle

Noun

wag (plural wags)

1. An oscillating movement.

2. A witty person.

Derived terms

• hop the wag
• play the wag

Translations

See also

• skivitis

References

• The Oxford English Dictionary, (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, Accessed 23 Feb. 2006.
• Jonathon Green, "wag," The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, (1998) p. 1257.

Anagrams

• AGW, AWG, GWA, Gaw, WGA, gaw

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?/

Etymology 1

From Dutch wacht, from Middle Dutch wachte, from Old Dutch wahta (“watch, sentry, guard”), from Proto-Germanic *wahtw? (“watch, vigil”).

Noun

wag (plural wagte)

1. guard

Derived terms

• skildwag
• waghou
• wagtoring

Etymology 2

From Dutch wachten, from Middle Dutch wachten (“to watch, guard, keep watch, wait”), from Old Dutch *wahton, derived from wahta.

Verb

wag (present wag, present participle wagtende, past participle gewag)

1. (intransitive) to wait [+ vir (for)]

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k

Verb

wag

1. singular imperative of wagen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of wagen

Middle English

Noun

wag

1. Alternative form of wage

Old English

Alternative forms

• w?h

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waigaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w???/, [w???]

Noun

w?g m

1. wall (of a building or a house)

Declension

Derived terms

• w?grift
• w?gþyrel

Descendants

• English: waw

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?gaz.

Noun

w?g m

1. wave
2. flood

References

• "w?g" in Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vak/

Noun

wag f

1. genitive plural of waga