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wiglomeration

wiglomeration noun: complex legal wrangling.

Noun

wiglomeration (uncountable)

  1. (derogatory) Complex legal wrangling.
    • Rick mistrusts and suspects me—goes to lawyers, and is taught to mistrust and suspect me. Hears I have conflicting interests, claims clashing against his and what not. Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC
    • Once again, however, wiglomeration confounded the completion of this would-be 'cloistered and undisturbed vale of death', for the Trustees of some other smaller parts of the legacy […] again challenged the will.2016, Johnny Rodger, The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity, page 162

Origin of wiglomeration

Blend of wig + agglomeration, in reference to the wigs traditionally worn in the legal profession.

Questions about wiglomeration

What does wiglomeration mean?
Wiglomeration means complex legal wrangling.
What part of speech is wiglomeration?
Wiglomeration is a noun.

Words near wiglomeration in the dictionary

  1. wiglet
  2. wiglets
  3. Wigley
  4. Wigleys
  5. wiglike
  6. wiglomeration
  7. wigmaker
  8. wigmakers
  9. wigmaking
  10. wigman
  11. wigmen

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