different between wiggery vs niggery

English

Etymology

wig +? -ery

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?w????i/
• Homophone: Whiggery

Noun

wiggery (plural wiggeries)

1. (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.

2. (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.

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

English

Etymology

nigger +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n????i/

Adjective

niggery (comparative more niggery, superlative most niggery)

1. (derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.
   • 2004, Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality, page 499

     […] hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.

   • 2009, Smith, Mark M, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses, page 138

     I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.

Anagrams

• gingery, greying