unwigged
unwigged adjective: not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig. Also the simple past and past participle of unwig.
Adjective
unwigged (not comparable)
- Not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig.
- Appearance—like the first blow in boxing—is half the battle. […] I was once witness to a farmer’s abusing a pair of young, spruce, unwigged counsellors for spoiling his ground, in the afternoon, in whose presence he had—on a trial in the morning—trembled from head to foot.1788, Charles Dibdin, The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin, Sheffield, Letter 22, pp. 82-83
- From the unwigged Mr. Justice Mallory, sipping the port of midday adjournment in his private room behind King’s Bench Seven, to melancholious Benjamin Bunce, perusing his “Law Times” at Groom’s coffee-shop in Fleet Street, the whole “legal world” was aware that “H. B. meant to make trouble.”1922, Gilbert Frankau, “18, 3”, in The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton, Toronto: F.D. Goodchild
Also used as
unwigged is also the simple past and past participle of unwig.
Origin of unwigged
From un- + wigged.
Questions about unwigged
- What does unwigged mean?
- Unwigged means not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig.
- What part of speech is unwigged?
- Unwigged is an adjective.
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