tiewig

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English

Etymology

From tie +‎ wig.

Noun

tiewig (plural tiewigs)

  1. A wig having a tie or ties, or one having some of the curls tied up.
  2. A wig that is tied upon the head; a court-wig tied with ribbon at the back.
    • 1788, Vicesimus Knox, Winter Evenings:
      A pragmatical pleader, as soon as he has thrown a tiewig over his toupee, [is equalled] to a Coke or a Littleton.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tiewig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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