wiggeryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

wig +‎ -ery

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɪɡəɹi/
• Homophone: Whiggery

名詞

wiggery (複数形 wiggeries)

1. (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
   • 1868, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn

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

2. (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
   • 1858, Thomas Carlyle, The History of Friedrich II of Prussia

     Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts].