Noun: wigg
Sample Sentences
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Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs […]and ale. [1664 April 17 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 8th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like wigg
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare Dutch wegge (“a sort of bread”), German Weck, originally a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See wedge. See: Dutch Nouns '
wegge', German Nouns '
Weck'.