wigging
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwɪɡɪŋ/
- present participle of wig#English|wig
wigging (plural wiggings)
- (uncountable) The action of the verb to wig.
- (countable, British, Ireland, colloquial, dated) A telling-off or reprimand.
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Thrown Away", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 18)
- His Colonel talked to him severely when the cold weather ended. That made him more wretched than ever; and it was only an ordinary ‘Colonel's wigging’!
- 1888, Rudyard Kipling, "Thrown Away", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 18)
- (film) The practice of male stuntmen performing for actresses.
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