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Definition of "wiggery" [wig•ger•y]

  • A wig or wigs; false hair. (noun)
  • Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism. (noun)

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Use "wiggery" in a sentence
  • "The singer-and-actress reportedly owns so many hairpieces she has built a 'wiggery' in her New York mansion, which she shares with her husband Marc Anthony and their 13-month-old twins Max and Emme."
  • "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."
  • "There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position."