wigan

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/ˈwɪɡən/

noun

A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.

OriginLatin vicus →
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Meanings

wigan1

nounwigan (countable and uncountable, plural wigans)

plural wigans

  1. countableuncountableA canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.

    It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required.

    1932, Transactions of the Institution of the Rubber Industry, volume 8, page 313

Wigan2

proper noun
  1. A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

Origin

wigan · noun

From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).

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Wigan · proper noun

  1. Latinvicus“town”
  2. EnglishWigan

From Proto-Brythonic, ultimately probably from Latin vicus (“town”) + a diminutive suffix (cf. Welsh gwig + -an).

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APA

wigan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wigan

MLA

“wigan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wigan. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wigan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wigan.

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