fright wig
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A wig, usually worn for humorous or novelty effect, having voluminous, frizzy, long hair, suggesting the hair "standing on end" of a person who is extremely frightened or who has experienced a powerful electric shock.
Example Sentences
- "There's an awfulness about the voice of a blood-maddened club-swingin' mob; it lifts your scalp like a fright wig, particularly if you are the clubee."
- "Mr. Pinchot, wearing a long-haired fright wig, plays a guileless nut named Bobby McGee who has been struck by lightning and turned into a psychic."
- "Six months before Andy Warhol died of a heart attack, he finished painting his last series of self-portraits. . . . In the images, set on an inky black background, his bald head is covered by his famously disconcerting "fright wig"."