waggle-um-tail-um

Updated: June 23, 2025

"I haven't done yet. What wonder it degrades a man when a dog loses his dignity under it. How mean he cut with his tail under his belly, instead of turning out to meet folk all jolly and waggle-um-tail-um as on other occasions Hallo, you, sir! what are you doing so near our tent?" and up jumped the man of property and ran cocking a revolver to a party who was kneeling close to the friends' tent.

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend