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wiggery|ˈwɪgərɪ|
[f. wig n.3 + -ery.]
1. Wigs or false hair collectively; the practice of wearing a wig.
1775Sturges in Lett. J. Granger (1805) 168 Dr Loveday shewed me your waggery upon wiggery. 1800in Spirit Publ. Jrnls. IV. 59 When I contemplate the Female wiggery, whether it be Roman or Athenian. 1866Trollope Claverings iii, He had lost the hair from the crown of his head, and had preferred wiggery to baldness.
2. Used by Carlyle for: Empty formality (in legal proceedings), ‘red tape’.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. ii. xvii, There is yet in venerable wigged Justice some wisdom amid such mountains of wiggeries and folly. 1858― Fredk. Gt. vi. ix. II. 131 Long lawsuit,..lengthy law-pleadings, and much parchment and wiggery. |