wiggery

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/ˈwɪɡəɹi/

noun

A wig or wigs; false hair.

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Meanings

nounwiggery (plural wiggeries)

plural wiggeries

  1. archaicA wig or wigs; false hair.

    There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.

    1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
  2. archaicAny cover or screen, such as red-tapism.

    Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].

    1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Origin

From wig + -ery.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Sounds the same

Whiggery
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APA

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MLA

“wiggery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiggery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wiggery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wiggery.

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