bewigv.
/bɪˈwɪɡ/ To furnish or cover with a wig.
a. Wearing a wig.
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1774 Westm. Mag. 2 600 Suppose me now be-wigg'd and seated here.
1866 London Rev. 9 June 640/1 It drives him to bewig his bald head.
b. Under the influence of bureaucracy or ‘red-tape.’ (In Germany Zopf = cue, pigtail, is the symbol of official pedantry or red-tape.)
Derivatives
beˈwigged adj.
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society > authority > office > [adjective] > bureaucratic > bureaucratized
bewigged1851
bureaucratized1855
red-taped1890
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing headgear > wearing a wig
periwig-pated1604
periwigged1606
peruked1632
wigged1777
bewigged1851
jaseyed1883
1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 vii. 416 A paltry Baden, a bewigged Prussia.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. i. i. 7 An old bewigged woman with eyeglasses pinching her nose.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
> as lemmas
bewig
bewig v. /biˈwɪɡ/
Brit. /bᵻˈwɪɡ/
, /bᵻˈwɪɡ/U.S. /bəˈwɪɡ/
, /bəˈwɪɡ//biˈwɪɡ/ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > headgear > wig
periwig1605
wig1826
bewig1862
1862 Times 26 Dec. Mr. Anthony Trollope comes to us berobed and bewigged.
1866 London Rev. 9 June 640/1 It drives him to bewig his bald head.
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v.1774as lemmas
- grubber-kick
- grubberkick
- grubbers
- grubbery
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- grubbies
- grubbiest
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- grubbily
- grubbiness
- grubbinesses
- grubbing
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- grubbing-fork
- grubbing-hall
- grubbing-hoe
- grubbing-hook
- grubbing-instrument
- grubbing-iron
- grubbing-machine
- grubbing-mattock
- grubbing-tool
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