smallwig
smallwig noun: a minor functionary or stakeholder.
Noun
smallwig (plural smallwigs)
- A minor functionary or stakeholder.
- A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusck the Cardenasparty of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres — the...1923, Time - Volume 32, page 19
- The bigwigs of the agency will make the presentation that will win your heart — and your business. But the smallwigs will do all the work.1994, Jay Conrad Levinson, Guerrilla Advertising, →ISBN
Forms of smallwig
| plural | smallwigs |
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Origin of smallwig
back-formation from bigwig.
Questions about smallwig
- What does smallwig mean?
- Smallwig means a minor functionary or stakeholder.
- What part of speech is smallwig?
- Smallwig is a noun.
- What is the plural of smallwig?
- The plural of smallwig is smallwigs.
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