Wig Meaning
/wɪɡ/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
nounA bigwig.
Sentence Examples
His wig is skew.
It'll take some time to get used to wearing a wig.
CEFR Practice Quiz
To look like a historical figure, she had to wear a ____ on her head.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The actor had to wear a long white ____ for his role as an eighteenth-century and very several important judge today.
Word Origin & History
Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us."
— 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 12, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
"And I don't know nothin bout slippin
Zombie killer or rambo twinnin
Or a long pole like scaffold
Just tryna rise and aim and wig him"
— 2020, CR1 of Hoxton, “EC1 Block Bully”, 1:26:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
To look like a historical figure, she had to wear a ____ on her head.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The actor had to wear a long white ____ for his role as an eighteenth-century and very several important judge today.