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▪ I. whig, n.1 Now Sc. and dial.|hwɪg|
Forms: 6 whyg(ge, 6–7 whigge, 6–7, 8–9 Sc. wig, 7, 9 Sc. whigg, 7, 8–9 Sc. wigg, 9 Sc. quhig, 6– whig.
[Of unascertained origin, but presumably related to whey. (The variation of whig and wig in Sc. is remarkable.)]
Variously applied to (a) sour milk or cream, (b) whey, (c) buttermilk, (d) a beverage consisting of whey fermented and flavoured with herbs.
1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 100 Lyvynge on mylke, whyg, and whey. 1561B. Googe tr. Palingenius' Zodiac iv. H v, My lusty gotes with kid they swel, ne want I whigge, nor whay. 1589[? Lyly] Pappe w. Hatchet Wks. 1902 III. 406 Martins conscience hath a periwig; therefore to good men he is more sower than wig. 1615Markham Country Contentm. ii. iv. 114 As for the Whey you may keepe it also in a sweet stone vessell: for it is that which is called Whigge, and is an excellent coole drinke and a wholsome. 1633Hart Diet of Diseased ii. xvii. 209 Sowre whey..is in very great request in the Northerne parts of this Iland, where it is called of some whigge, and of others wigge. 1684[Meriton] Yorksh. Ale Gloss. 114 Whig is Clarified Whey, put up with Herbs to drink. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 173/1 Thick Milk, Butter-milk made thick through the heat of Summer, the bottom part falling to a Whigg. 1799Statist. Acc. Scot. XXI. 142 Cream, too long kept, and purified by drawing off the thin part, or wig, for drink, was converted into butter. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 736/1 Whig..is the provincial name in the south-west of Scotland for that blue-and-yellowish, thin sub-acid liquid which gathers on the surface of whey or butter milk.
fig.1661Nedham Hist. Engl. Reb. xlii, There lies the Cream of all the Cause; Religion is but Whig.
▪ II. whig, v.1 Sc.
[Cf. fig (v.3), frig, jig.]
1. trans. To urge forward, drive briskly.
1666–7G. Blackhal Brief Narr. (1844) §8. 163, I did sie the contrie people whigging their meres, to be tymously at the kirk.
2. intr. To jog along.
c1690Killiecrankie in C. Mackay Jacobite Songs (1861) 38 The solemn league and covenant, Cam whigging up the hills, man. 1701De Foe Trueborn Eng. i. 222 Scots from the northern frozen banks of Tay, With packs and plods came whigging all away. 1815Scott Guy M. xxiv, Just when I..was whigging cannily awa hame.
▪ III. whig, v.3 dial.
[f. whig n.1]
trans. and intr. To turn sour; to curdle.
1756F. Home Exper. Bleaching 196 The milk is whigged, and still pretty sour. 1825Jamieson s.v., Stale churned milk, when it throws off a sediment, is said to whig. 1835De Quincey Tory's Acc. Toryism, etc., Wks. 1863 XV. 224 If you pour milk upon rum, and do it so slowly or so unskilfully as to coagulate the mixture, you are said ‘to whig it.’
▪ IV. whig(g
variants of wig n.1, kind of bun. |