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wig-picker

wig-picker noun: a psychotherapist.

Noun

wig-picker (plural wig-pickers)

  1. (dated) A psychotherapist.
    • Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate.1954, Time, page 92
    • And I've been up, right with you," snapped the little flight surgeon, "playing wig picker to a flock of kids with nerve sickness.1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167

Forms of wig-picker

pluralwig-pickers

Questions about wig-picker

What does wig-picker mean?
Wig-picker means a psychotherapist.
What part of speech is wig-picker?
Wig-picker is a noun.
What is the plural of wig-picker?
The plural of wig-picker is wig-pickers.

Words near wig-picker in the dictionary

  1. wig out
  2. wig outs
  3. wig tree
  4. wig tree fern
  5. wig tree ferns
  6. wig-picker
  7. wig-pickers
  8. wig-wag
  9. wig-wagged
  10. wig-wagging
  11. wig-wags

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