Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An artificial covering of human or synthetic hair worn on the head for personal adornment, as part of a costume, or to conceal baldness.
- transitive verb To scold or censure.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A beast of burden, as a horse or an ass.
- noun A sort of cake.
- To rate or scold severely.
- noun An artificial covering of hair for the head, used generally to conceal baldness, but formerly worn as a fashionable head-dross.
- noun The full-grown male fur-seal of Alaska, Callorhinus ursinus. See cut ununder fur-seal.
- noun The head.
- To post a scout on the route of flight in a pigeon race, with a hen pigeon to attract the opponent's bird and retard his progress. Barrère and Leland.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Slang To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
- noun A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
- noun An old seal; -- so called by fishermen.
- noun (Bot.) See Smoke tree, under
Smoke .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A head of real or
synthetic hair worn on the head todisguise baldness ; for cultural or religious reasons; forfashion ; or byactors to help them better resemble the character they areportraying . - verb To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
- verb colloquial To
upbraid ,reprimand . - verb colloquial To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
- noun British slang for a scolding
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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We may therefore suppose this wig [_shews a large wig_] to be a huge quarto in large paper; this is a duodecimo in small print [_takes the knowing head_]; and this a jockey's head, sweated down to ride a sweepstakes.
A Lecture On Heads As Delivered By Mr. Charles Lee Lewes, To Which Is Added, An Essay On Satire, With Forty-Seven Heads By Nesbit, From Designs By Thurston, 1812 Geo. Alex. Stevens 1893
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Check out the video clip … at least the Gosselin wig is a funny sight gag.
Taylor Swift Saturday Night Live Musical Guest January 10 2009
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From the pictures that I saw last week, the wig is also a lot shorter than her hair in New moon which is a shame.
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Of course, she probably made her co-star Taylor Lautner feel more at home considering his wearing a wig is nothing out of the ordinary.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS: APRIL 14TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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Now, the wig is being sent to another woman who will be receiving breast-cancer treatments.
How Hope Travels With a Wig Jeffrey Zaslow 2010
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Of course, she probably made her co-star Taylor Lautner feel more at home considering his wearing a wig is nothing out of the ordinary.
TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS: APRIL 14TH | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews 2010
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My wig is askew, I can feel it, so I try to tug at it without her seeing.
Anhedonia (excerpt) Laura Preble 2010
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They should have had her in a wig from the beginning.
Twilight Lexicon » Nikki Reed Tells MTV About Make-up and Hair Changes 2009
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Brandy Navarre, X17: Viva Vesgo, the guy in the pink wig, is the Jay Leno of Brazil.
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Brandy Navarre, X17: Viva Vesgo, the guy in the pink wig, is the Jay Leno of Brazil.
reesetee commented on the word wig
Originally periwig
March 7, 2007