Wig

Noun

 * 1) A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness; for cultural or religious reasons; for fashion; or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.

Synonyms

 * hairpiece
 * toupee, toupe
 * peruke

Derived terms

 * bald wig
 * bewigged
 * fright wig
 * wigmaker
 * wig out

Verb

 * 1) To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
 * 2)  To upbraid, reprimand.
 * 3)  To become very excitable or emotional; to lose control of one's emotions.

Adjectives for Wig
glossy; curly; formidable; elastic; frizzled; obvious; tangled; little; flaxen; towering; comical-looking.

Thesaurus
admonishment, admonition, bawl out, berate, chew out, chiding, hairpiece, jaw, periwig, peruke, rail, rap, rate, reprimand, reproach, reproof, revile, tongue-lash, toupee, upbraid

Etymology
Shortening of periwig:, itself an alteration of perruque:.

Pronunciation



 * (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Noun

 * Arabic: شعر مستعار, باروكة
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: перука
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 假髮, 假发
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პარიკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: かつら, 入れ毛
 * Korean:, 덧머리
 * Latin: capillamentum
 * Latvian: parūka
 * Lithuanian: perukas
 * Norwegian:
 * Ossetic:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: perucă
 * Russian:
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: (pŏm bplom),  (wík)
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: перука
 * Volapük: herot, helot
 * Volapük: herot, helot

Related terms

 * wig out

Noun

 * 1) wedge

Noun

 * 1) war, battle
 * Oft ic wig seo, frecne feohtan: often I see war, brave men fighting. (AS Riddles)

Related terms

 * wiga

Noun

 * 1) idol

Derived terms

 * wīġweorþung

Etymology 1
From, from. Cognate with Old Frisian wig:, Old Saxon wig:, Old High German wic:, Old Norse víg:. The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin vinco:, Welsh gwychr:, Russian век:, Lithuanian veikti:.

Etymology 2
Variant of weoh:.