| 单词 | Whig |
| 释义 | Whig /hwig, wig/, n. 1. Amer. Hist. a. a member of the patriotic party during the Revolutionary period; supporter of the Revolution. b. a member of a political party (c1834-1855) that was formed in opposition to the Democratic party, and favored economic expansion and a high protective tariff, while opposing the strength of the presidency in relation to the legislature. 2. Brit. Politics. a. a member of a major political party (1679-1832) in Great Britain that held liberal principles and favored reforms: later called the Liberal party. b. (in later use) one of the more conservative members of the Liberal party. adj. 3. being a Whig. 4. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Whigs. [1635-45; earlier, a Covenanter, hence an opponent of the accession of James II; of uncert. orig., though prob. in part a shortening of whiggamaire (later whiggamore), a participant in the Whiggamore Raid a march against the royalists in Edinburgh launched by Covenanters in 1648 (said to represent whig to spur on (cf. WHIG) + maire MARE1)] |
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