Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An artificial covering of human or synthetic hair worn on the head for personal adornment, as part of a costume, or to conceal baldness.
- v. To scold or censure.
- wig out Slang To make or become wildly excited, enthusiastic, or crazy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To post a scout on the route of flight in a pigeon race, with a hen pigeon to attract the opponent's bird and retard his progress. Barrère and Leland.
- n. A beast of burden, as a horse or an ass.
- n. A sort of cake.
- n. An artificial covering of hair for the head, used generally to conceal baldness, but formerly worn as a fashionable head-dross. Wigs are usually made to imitate the natural hair, but formal curled wigs are worn as part of their professional costume by judges and lawyers in Great Britain. Wigs are much used on the stage. See
perulce . - n. The full-grown male fur-seal of Alaska, Callorhinus ursinus. See cut ununder fur-seal.
- n. The head.
- To rate or scold severely.
Wiktionary
- n. A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness; for cultural or religious reasons; for fashion; or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
- v. To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
- v. colloquial To upbraid, reprimand.
- v. colloquial To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
- n. An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
- v. Slang To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- n. British slang for a scolding
Etymologies
- Shortening of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. (Wiktionary)
- Short for periwig. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“We may therefore suppose this wig [_shews a large wig_] to be a huge quarto in large paper; this is a duodecimo in small print [_takes the knowing head_]; and this a jockey's head, sweated down to ride a sweepstakes.”
“Check out the video clip … at least the Gosselin wig is a funny sight gag.”
“From the pictures that I saw last week, the wig is also a lot shorter than her hair in New moon which is a shame.”
“Of course, she probably made her co-star Taylor Lautner feel more at home considering his wearing a wig is nothing out of the ordinary.”
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“Now, the wig is being sent to another woman who will be receiving breast-cancer treatments.”
“My wig is askew, I can feel it, so I try to tug at it without her seeing.”
“They should have had her in a wig from the beginning.”
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“Brandy Navarre, X17: Viva Vesgo, the guy in the pink wig, is the Jay Leno of Brazil.”
“Hmm, I getting the feeling that wearing that wig is just a tad annoying lol poor guys had artificial hair in his mouth for the best part of the interview lol.”
“Steve Zahn, without a wig, is a frontier criminologist who goes over to the dark side, and who could blame him?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wig’.
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3-Letter Scrabble Words Which Do Not ...
A list of 3-letter words which cannot be formed by adding a letter to a 2-letter word (see Ken Clark's word lists found at http://www.seattlescrab...
fiz, fix, fir, fig, fie, fib, eve, eke, egg, eek, ecu, ebb and 225 more...
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EN - 3-letter words of the pattern CVC
With the exception of abbreviations and mosaic words all types of words (proper names, past tense of verbs, etc.) are allowed.
for, was, not, his, but, has, had, can, her, him, new, now and 339 more...
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[Open] “What’s that on your head?”
Headgear: “anything worn on the head” (that isn’t part of the head). Hats are fine, but for a more detailed, wider selection of fashionable hats in all colors and sizes, please see Reese Tee’s li...
goggles, wig, headdress, cap, hackamore, halter, bridle, beanie, turban, hat, crown, chapeau and 126 more...
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Australasian mammals
Australasian mammals, monotremes, anteater, duckbill, echidna, giant anteater, ornithorhynchus, platypus, porcupine, water mole, carnivorous marsu..., banded anteater and 220 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
ace, act, ade, ado, add, ads, age, ago, ail, air, aim, all and 397 more...
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Wig
Wiggery. Even though kalayzich got there first with the list called wigs.
paresseuse, nob-thatcher, rogerian, bob-jerom, gregorian, pigeonwing, pulvil, bagwig, vallancy, tye-wig, Bob, bob-wig and 33 more...
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head
words for head
( open list, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/mentally-irregularnoggin, gourd, brain, cranium, melon, skull, upstairs, attic, crown, roof, mind, plosive and 15 more...
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Clownage
A list for anything to do with clowns.
clownage, clown car, greasepaint, Bim Bom, Buffo, clown shoes, hoop clown, red nose, Cepillín, payaso, Otto Griebling, Grock and 20 more...
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wigs
wig terminology
transformation
4. An artificial head of hair worn by women.
1901 Daily News 12 Jan. 6/7 Buying toupées, or even ‘transformations’, as those wigs are ca...buzzwig, bagwig, bobwig, dalmahoy, gizz, jiz, jasey, jasy, jazy, periwig, perruque, peruke and 54 more...
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alopecia
i suppose, all of the words & phrases yoni wolf uses in alopecia, that i love.
ladies man, landmine, cavalier, consumer grade video, single's bingo, all-time gringo, calculated birth, manila envelope, mortaring, houdini, punchline, circus mirrors and 160 more...
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3LW
3 letter words, not the girl band.
boggle and speed scrabble would not be half as fun without them.aah, boa, dot, fun, ick, log, oca, pyx, sos, was, aal, bob and 342 more...
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The List Of Words That Rewrote The Hi...
Ah, yeah, this is a list of words that I think sound pretty funny... or dumb, either way, I like 'em so, yeah.
flabergasted, smash, wang, wordie, drum, rumplestiltskin, resistance, watt, hindu, universal serial bus, bearing, nematode and 138 more...
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18th century british
from Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer, Christopher Smart's Jubilate Agno, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's School for Scandal ...
intimacy, piety, partiality, sentimental, plasters, mawkish, drab, spurious, sententious, bitters, folly, virtue and 132 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Fun with Aphesis
Words created by removing the beginning of a longer or original word or phrase. See also Fun with Apocopes.
phone, bus, drawing room, til, cello, squire, pike, cute, gypsy, mend, vanish, scapegoat and 22 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wig.
reesetee Originally periwig Mar 7, 2007