wiggery
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The work of a wig-maker; false hair.
- noun Excess of formality; red-tapism.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Note
The word 'wiggery' is formed from 'wig' and the suffix '-ery'.
