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wiggery

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].

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waggery

English

Etymology

wag +? -ery

Noun

waggery (countable and uncountable, plural waggeries)

  1. droll behaviour characteristic of a wag
  2. a droll remark or jest

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