Obs. [f. WAG sb.2 + -SHIP.]
1. Waggery, waggishness.
1607. Middleton, Fam. Love, II. (1608), B 4 b. No rather lets pierce the Rundlets of our running heads and giue ’hem a neate cuppe of wagshippe, to put down their Courtship.
2. Used jocularly, with possessive pron., as a title for a wag.
1607. Marston, What You Will, III. i. E 4. Pleaseth your excellent wagship to bee informed that [etc.].
1640. Brome, Antipodes, II. ix E 3 b. You shall to schoole, away with him; and take Their wagships with him.
