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Wiggery. World English Historical Dictionary

Wiggery. 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. Wiggery [f. WIG sb.3 + -ERY.]

1   1.  Wigs or false hair collectively; the practice of wearing a wig.

2 1775.  Sturges, in Lett. J. Granger (1805), 168. Dr Loveday shewed me your waggery upon wiggery.

3 1800.  in Spirit Publ. Jrnls., IV. 59. When I contemplate the Female wiggery, whether it be Roman or Athenian.

4 1866.  Trollope, Claverings, iii. He had lost the hair from the crown of his head, and had preferred wiggery to baldness.

5   2.  Used by Carlyle for: Empty formality (in legal proceedings), ‘red tape.’

6 1843.  Carlyle, Past & Pr., II. xvii. There is yet in venerable wigged Justice some wisdom amid such mountains of wiggeries and folly. Ibid. (1858), Fredk. Gt., VI. ix. II. 131. Long lawsuit,… lengthy law-pleadings, and much parchment and wiggery.

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