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Webster 1913 Edition
Wiggery
Wig′ger-y
,Noun.
1.
A wig or wigs; false hair.
[R.]
A. Trollope.
2.
Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.
[R.]
Fire peels the
wiggeries
away from them [facts.] Carlyle.
Definition 2024
wiggery
wiggery
English
Noun
wiggery (plural wiggeries)
- (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
- Anthony Trollope
- There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
- Anthony Trollope
- (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
- Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts] — Carlyle.