wig
/wɪɡ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.64 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
noun
A bigwig.
verb
To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
verb
To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
Colloquial; Intransitive verb; Slang
intj
An expression of shock.
Example Sentences
- "But wearing a wig is no reason to kill a man, with one or two notable exceptions."
- "Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us."
- "That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging."
- "And I don't know nothin bout slippin Zombie killer or rambo twinnin Or a long pole like scaffold Just tryna rise and aim and wig him"
Etymology
Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Origin
- Source language: French
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wing-in-ground-effect
wing in ground-effect
wing-in-ground effect
wing in ground effect
WISE
wing in surface effect
wing-in-surface-effect
wing in surface-effect
wing-in-surface effect
hairpiece
periwig
peruke