Word.ws English Dictionary

wagadash

wagadash is the alternative form of waggadash.

Meaning of waggadash

Noun

waggadash (plural waggadashes)

  1. (archaic) A wakizashi.
    • Their disposition, according to the quality of their arms, is thus: first of all march their shot, that is, calievers, for muskets they have none, neither will they use any; then follow pikes, then cattans and targets, bows and arrows, waggadashes or hooks, and lastly, calievers again close the...1758, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature - Volume 6, page 108

Forms of wagadash

pluralwagadashes

Questions about wagadash

What is wagadash the alternative form of?
Wagadash is the alternative form of waggadash.

Words near wagadash in the dictionary

  1. wag-pasty
  2. wag-tail dance
  3. wag-wanton
  4. wag-wantons
  5. wag1
  6. wagadash
  7. wagadashes
  8. Wagadugu
  9. Wagah
  10. Wagaman
  11. Wagamans

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wagadash (page history and authors); waggadash (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “wagadash.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/wagadash. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.