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wiggeries

wiggeries is the plural of wiggery.

Meaning of wiggery

Noun

wiggery (plural wiggeries)

  1. (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
    • There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn
  2. (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
    • Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].1858–1865, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC

Questions about wiggeries

What is wiggeries the plural of?
Wiggeries is the plural of wiggery.

Words near wiggeries in the dictionary

  1. wigged on to
  2. wigged onto
  3. wigged out
  4. wigged-out
  5. wigger
  6. wiggeries
  7. wiggerish
  8. wiggers
  9. wiggery
  10. wiggier
  11. wiggiest

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