wiggery
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɪɡəɹi/
- Homophone: Whiggery
Noun
wiggery (plural wiggeries)
- (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
- 1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn:
- There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
- (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
- 1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].
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