wig

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  1. noun An artificial covering of human or synthetic hair worn on the head for personal adornment, as part of a costume, or to conceal baldness.
  2. transitive verb To scold or censure.
  3. phrasal verb wig out Slang To make or become wildly excited, enthusiastic, or crazy.

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  • The admirable frame, defined by the clinging garments, resembled his; the wig was an excellent copy of his fair hair. —  52316_ApeWhoGuardsTheBalance
  • But let me go on to your two next strange lines And bring with you a wig, that is modish and gay To dance with the girls that are makers of hay The absurdity of making hay at Christmas you yourself seem sensible of: you say your sister will laugh; and so indeed she well may! —  Oliver Goldsmith
  • ‘Then the wig was a fairly recent acquisition,’ I said. —  Here Lies Gloria Mundy - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 61
  • The faded hair might have been a wig, or the part-wig which is called a front. —  Wicked Uncle - Patricia Wentworth - Miss Silver 12 (apa Spotlight)
  • Nowadays, purchasing a wig is the perfect answer to a number of situations. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
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  1. Short for periwig.

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  1. Origin obscure.
  2. from Middle English wig, from Anglo-Saxon wicg = Icelandic viggr (viggja-), also vigg, a horse, steed; connected with Anglo-Saxon wegan, carry: see way, weigh.
  3. Also wigg (and erroneously whig); early modern English wygge; = Dutch wig, wigge, a wedge, = German week, wecke, a sort of bread: see wedge.
  4. Abbr. of periwig: see periwig and peruke.
  5. from wig, n., the orig. sense being perhaps ‘to put a wig on,’ i. e. to set right without ceremony, or ‘to snatch at (one's) wig,’ to ruffle or handle (one) without ceremony. Compare wigging, where the ref. to ear-wigging in the quot. is prob. humorous, the term meaning ‘wigging into one's private ear,’ but alluding to earwig, an annoying insect.
 

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