In the lyric, the singer falls in love with a puppy with a waggly tail that is displayed in a pet shop window.

RACHMANINOV: Composed music, hence the saying, 'How much is that doggy in the window, the one with the waggly tail'.

Its goofy sense of the marvelous and absurd is distilled by an argument between two characters as to whether the puppy in the song "(How Much Is That) Doggie in the Window" has a "waggedy" or a "waggly" tail.

I still remember feeling the breeze of her wagging finger: "That's not good for you.

More than one high born Lady has ended up divorced thanks to the wagging tongue of her slave girl.

Kincaid Dano said, with a mental image of a wagging finger.

A wagging tail was her only answer, for the woolly black head remained buried in the interesting bowl.

It is a well proportioned, balanced dog with a gentle expression and a friendly wagging tail.

But that quickly turns into more like a fivesome and then a sixsome as we are tailed by some wagging friends.

A wagging finger, she has me bend low for some secret "Danny is crying," she whispers.

I hurriedly unwrap my sandwich, before her wagging tail can sweep the protective towel to the floor.

Summerlee thrust out his chin, with its little wagging tuft of goatee beard.

He wished he could get his hands on that cook so he could cut out her wagging tongue.

Still others ignore warning signs or mistakenly think that a stiff wagging tail means that a dog is friendly.

When Jennsen patted her fat middle, Betty's upright tail instantly became a wagging blur.

If anything had attached itself to Nixie, they could not find ir and his wagging tail gave no sign of distress; they went on.

A moment later his upper teeth descended like a drop-gate and seered the tip of his wagging tongue.

The fellow's lips drew back in a gruesome grin, displaying a mouthful of broken fangs and a black wagging tongue.

Marsh was beaten by Hendrick's swing and was caught by Denness to leave Australia 228/8 and in real trouble when they were saved by a wagging tail.

Because the very idea of defeat was foreign to her, she had blithely moved through life arranging it to suit herself and accepted it as only natural that shopkeepers quaked before her wagging finger.

A wagging tail often is an attempt to communicate excitement, though a tail held high over the back can signal the dog becoming aroused - either for what humans see as for positive or negative reasons.

"I remain totally unrepentant," said the last ghost, gripped in his compulsive wagging disorder, "and am the victim of an absurd plot by Gertz [sic] of The New York Times.

Referencing the Chrétien de Troyes quote that opens the film, "A wagging tongue bites itself", Pauline Kael wrote, "Pauline, who is the moral center of the film, doesn't carry tales.

The ease with which Ms. Jones slipped into a dozen different souls was matched by a rare gift for defining a character with a precise, indelible sound or image: the crook of a wagging finger or the musical lilt of an accent.