wigg

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noun

A kind of cake or bun made with seeds.

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Meanings

wigg1

nounwigg (plural wiggs)

plural wiggs · alternative wig

  1. A kind of cake or bun made with seeds.

    Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs […]and ale.

    1664 April 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 8th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC
  2. obsoleteObsolete spelling of wig

Wigg2

proper noun
  1. A surname.

Origin

Compare Dutch wegge (“a sort of bread”), German Weck, originally a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See wedge.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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