different between wiggery vs figgery

English

wig +? -ery

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.
- Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].

fig +? -ery

figgery (plural figgeries)

fig +? -ery, in colloquial sense of "figure".

figgery

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