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English
Etymology 1
From un- + wigged.
Adjective
unwigged (not comparable)
- Not wearing a wig; not covered by a wig.
1788, Charles Dibdin, The Musical Tour of Mr. Dibdin, Sheffield, Letter 22, pp. 82-83:Appearance—like the first blow in boxing—is half the battle. […] I was once witness to a farmer’s abusing a pair of young, spruce, unwigged counsellors for spoiling his ground, in the afternoon, in whose presence he had—on a trial in the morning—trembled from head to foot.
1922, Gilbert Frankau, “18, 3”, in The Love-Story of Aliette Brunton, Toronto: F.D. Goodchild:From the unwigged Mr. Justice Mallory, sipping the port of midday adjournment in his private room behind King’s Bench Seven, to melancholious Benjamin Bunce, perusing his “Law Times” at Groom’s coffee-shop in Fleet Street, the whole “legal world” was aware that “H. B. meant to make trouble.”
1999, Salman Rushdie, chapter 9, in The Ground Beneath Her Feet, London: Jonathan Cape, page 269:Methwold is a walking antique, with mottled skin blotched over his hairless unwigged dome, making his baldness look like a map of the moon […]
Etymology 2
Verb
unwigged
- simple past and past participle of unwig