Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The work of a wig-maker; false hair.
- noun Excess of formality; red-tapism.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare A wig or wigs; false hair.
- noun rare Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.
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- noun archaic A
wig or wigs;false hair . - noun archaic Any
cover orscreen , such asred-tapism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The singer-and-actress reportedly owns so many hairpieces she has built a 'wiggery' in her New York mansion, which she shares with her husband Marc Anthony and their 13-month-old twins Max and Emme.
Tonight 2009
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What misfortune had made him bald so early — if to be bald early in life be a misfortune — I cannot say; but he had lost the hair from the crown of his head, and had preferred wiggery to baldness.
The Claverings 2005
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
Phineas Finn 2004
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
Phineas Finn Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 1869
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
Phineas Finn 1867
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What misfortune had made him bald so early -- if to be bald early in life be a misfortune -- I cannot say; but he had lost the hair from the crown of his head, and had preferred wiggery to baldness.
The Claverings Anthony Trollope 1848
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There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
Phineas Finn The Irish Member Anthony Trollope 1848
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You know, the fairy tales where the wiggery slut with the fake tits ditches her pimp for a big black dude.
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Yes -- yes -- that may do for Englishmen very well; but, I guess, it would not go down here -- no, no, Americans are a little more enlightened than to stand that kind of wiggery. "
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
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You see, we have done with wiggery of all kinds; and if one of our judges were to wear such an appendage, he'd be taken for a merry-andrew, and the court would become a kind of show-box -- instead of such arrangements producing with us solemnity, they would produce nothing but laughter, and the greatest possible irregularity. "
A Ramble of Six Thousand Miles through the United States of America
perhapsolutely commented on the word wiggery
"their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft."
-A Trollope
November 4, 2007