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Wig v.2. World English Historical Dictionary

Wig v.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wig v.2 1.  [f. WIG sb.3 1, or back-formation on WIGGED.] trans. To supply with a wig; to put a wig upon; spec. to provide with wigs in preparation for a theatrical performance (with the actors or the performance as obj.).

1 1826.  Examiner, 119/2. Cooper performed the husband, and had to wig himself into age for the purpose.

2 1872.  E. Yates, Castaway, I. i. It was Mr. Samuel’s boast that he had ‘wigged and painted’ more ‘stars’ than any other man out of London.

3 1889.  Pall Mall Gaz., 3 July, 4/2. I … have the pleasure of congratulating Mr. Clarkson on having ‘wigged’ three operas in one evening.

4   2.  [f. WIG sb.3 4, or back-formation on WIGGING.] To rebuke or censure severely, scold, rate. Also rarely intr. with at. slang or colloq.

5 1829.  Examiner, 595/1. The Chronicle discovers too much disposition to what is vulgarly but expressively called, wigging us.

6 1831.  Capt. B. Hall, Voy. & Trav., I. iii. 73. I had … from the first day I went afloat—a great horror at being reproached, or ‘wigged,’ as we called it.

7 1908.  W. De Morgan, Somehow Good, xxv. What are you wigging at her for?

8 1911.  Times, 13 April, 9/4. A subordinate of the Inland Revenue Department, who presumably has been severely ‘wigged’ by his chief.

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