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periwigging

periwigging is the present participle and gerund of periwig.

Meaning of periwig

Verb

periwig (third-person singular simple present periwigs, present participle periwigging, simple past and past participle periwigged)

  1. (transitive) To dress with a periwig, or with false hair; to bewig.
    • Discord periwigg'd with snakes1736, Jonathan Swift, The Legion Club

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Questions about periwigging

What is periwigging the present participle and gerund of?
Periwigging is the present participle and gerund of periwig.

Words near periwigging in the dictionary

  1. perivitelline
  2. perivulval
  3. perivulvar
  4. periwig
  5. periwigged
  6. periwigging
  7. periwigs
  8. periwinkle
  9. periwinkled
  10. periwinkler
  11. periwinklers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: periwigging (page history and authors); periwig (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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