wiggery

[ wig-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural wig·ger·ies.

1. wigs or a wig; false hair.
2. the wearing of wigs.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wiggery¹

First recorded in 1765–75; wig + -ery

Example Sentences

AuCoin is in his second season on FX’s “The Americans,” which Washington Post television critic Hank Stuever named the best show on TV, playing Pastor Tim, the social activist minister battling for the adolescent soul of Paige Jennings, daughter of 1980s Soviet spies and masters of wiggery Elizabeth and Philip.

From Washington Post

When his father, portrayed as "Poll Sweedlepipe" in Charles Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit, died, Son William, 15, took over the Drury Lane Wiggery.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.

From Project Gutenberg

What misfortune had made him bald so early—if to be bald early in life be a misfortune—I cannot say; but he had lost the hair from the crown of his head, and had preferred wiggery to baldness.

From Project Gutenberg

Edwin's biography records that that actor's "wiggery cost him more than a hundred pounds, and he could boast of having perukes in his collection which had decorated the heads of monarchs, judges, aldermen, philosophers, sailors, jockeys, beaux, thieves, tailors, tinkers, and haberdashers."

From Project Gutenberg