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wig and falsies

wig and falsies noun: an attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.

Noun

wig and falsies pl (plural only)

  1. (colloquial, figuratively, plural, plural-only) An attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.
    • Don't put a fake wig and falsies on your advertised product.1953, Harvey Whipple, Concrete, volume 61, page 39
    • I am a consummate, dyed-in-the-wool, classic Eudora fan, and Mozilla Thunderbird - or for that matter any three-pane user interface email client dating back to Claris Emailer - is simply not my cup of tea, so dressing T-bird up in a Eudora wig and falsies is not going to cut it for me, or a lot of...2008 April 21, Charles Moore, “Odysseus Cometh: The Real Successor to Eudora”, in Low End Mac, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2021

Origin of wig and falsies

An allusion to cross-dressing.

Questions about wig and falsies

What does wig and falsies mean?
Wig and falsies means an attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.
What part of speech is wig and falsies?
Wig and falsies is a noun.

Words near wig and falsies in the dictionary

  1. wiftier
  2. wiftiest
  3. wifty
  4. wifty-wafty
  5. wig
  6. wig and falsies
  7. wig block
  8. wig blocks
  9. wig cap
  10. wig caps
  11. wig head

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