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whig

/ʍɪɡ/

whig noun: acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.

Noun (1)

whig (plural whigs)

  1. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
  2. Buttermilk.

Verb

whig (third-person singular simple present whigs, present participle whigging, simple past and past participle whigged)

  1. (transitive) To urge forward; drive briskly.
  2. (intransitive) To jog along; move or work briskly.
  3. (transitive) To weird out or disturb someone.

Noun (2) capitalized: Whig

Whig (plural Whigs)

  1. (UK, historical) A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party.
    • One was a piece, Two Cheers for the Whig Interpretation of History, by William Cronon, president of the American Historical Association.2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
    Antonyms:
    Tory
  2. (UK, rare) A member (especially a politician) of the former Liberal Party or its successor, the Liberal Democrats.
  3. (US, historical) An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the American Revolution.
    Antonyms:
    Tory
  4. (US, historical) A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.
    Antonyms:
    Democrat, Jacksonian Democrat

whig meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

whig in Hindi

व्हिग

whig in Tamil

மரபு மேல்தட்டினர்

whig in Marathi

व्हिग

whig in Urdu

لسی, مٹھا
More languagesFewer languages
whig in Bengali
হুইগ
whig in Telugu
విగ్
whig in Kannada
ವಿಗ್
whig in Gujarati
વ્હીગ

Antonyms of whig

Forms of whig

Noun
pluralwhigs
pluralWhigs
Verb
third-person singular presentwhigs
present participlewhigging
past participlewhigged
pastwhigged

Plural of whig: whigs

Origin of whig

Probably from Middle English wheyȝe, weyȝe, wege, variant of whey. More at whey.

Compare frig, jig

From Whiggamore, possibly from Scots whiggamore (“horse driver”), from whig (“to drive”) + mare.

Words formed from whig

Phrases with whig

Words that rhyme with whig

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Questions about whig

What does whig mean?
Whig means acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
What is whig in Hindi?
Whig in Hindi is व्हिग. See Whig meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is whig?
Whig can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce whig?
Whig is pronounced /ʍɪɡ/.
What is the plural of whig?
The plural of whig is whigs.

Words near whig in the dictionary

  1. whiffs
  2. whiffy
  3. whiftier
  4. whiftiest
  5. whifty
  6. whig
  7. Whig histories
  8. Whig history
  9. whigga
  10. Whiggamore
  11. Whiggamores

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Adapted from Wiktionary: whig (page history and authors); Whig (page history and authors); whig (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whig (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whig (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whig (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); whig (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whig (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whig (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whig (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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