wagging the tail
wagging the tail, as a dog, Phot., Eust. 1821.51.
The corpus record
σαίν-ουρος
sainouros
wagging the tail
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.