wag: Dictionary.com Word of the Day

Advertisement Student Debt Got You Down? Want to lower your monthly payments by up to 40%? Consolidate Today! Click here to lower your student loan payment by 53%!      Word of the Day for Thursday, May 4, 2006   wag \WAG\, noun: A humorous person; a wit; a joker.   The master of ceremonies was one Boston, a noted wag, and the occasion seemed to promise the greatest facetiousness. -- Francis Bret Harte, The Luck of Roaring Camp Yet the fate of all three reformers was more or less the same. Washington remained much as it had been before. ("Only more so," a wag might add.) -- Jonathan Rauch, Government's End Some wag has summed up the three laws of thermodynamics in everyday terms: 1. You can't win. 2. You can't even break even. 3. You can't get out of the game. -- John Gribbin with Mary Gribbin, Almost Everyone's Guide to Science Wag in this sense perhaps comes from the obsolete wag-halter, "a rogue; one likely to be hanged." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for wag   Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help   Please visit our Sponsors     What's another word for thesaurus? Enrich your vocabulary at Thesaurus.com: http://www.thesaurus.com/ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: news-and-stuff@arconati.us Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-wordoftheday@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at: http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-6707132-4826904R@lists.lexico.com © 2006 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. 65 Pine Ave, #319 Long Beach, CA 90802