whiggamore

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  1. A person who came from the west and southwest of Scotland to Leith to buy corn. See the quotation from Bishop Burnet, under Whig, 2.
  2. One of the people of the west of Scotland who marched to Edinburgh in 1648, their expedition being called the whiggamores' inroad (see the quotation referred to in def. 1).
  3. Hence A Scotch Presbyterian; one of the party opposed to the court; a whig. There [at Bothwell Brigg] was he and that sour whigamore they ca'd Burley. Scott, Old Mortality, xxxvii.

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  1. Also whiggamor, whigamore; according to Burnet, derived from whiggam, as used by the men orig. called whiggamores (def. 1) in driving their horses; whiggam is a dubious word, apparently connected with whig, jog: see whig. In the glossary to the Waverley novels whigamore is defined “a great whig,” apparently implying a derivation from whig + Gaelic mor, great; whereas the evidence indicates that whig is an abbreviation of whiggamore. No Gaelic form that could be the base of whiggamore appears; but it may be a perverted form from an original not now obvious.
 

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