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English
Etymology
Blend of wig + agglomeration, in reference to the wigs traditionally worn in the legal profession.
Noun
wiglomeration (uncountable)
- (derogatory) Complex legal wrangling.
1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1853, →OCLC:Rick mistrusts and suspects me—goes to lawyers, and is taught to mistrust and suspect me. Hears I have conflicting interests, claims clashing against his and what not. Whereas, heaven knows that if I could get out of the mountains of wiglomeration on which my unfortunate name has been so long bestowed […] I would do it this hour.
2016, Johnny Rodger, The Hero Building: An Architecture of Scottish National Identity, page 162:Once again, however, wiglomeration confounded the completion of this would-be 'cloistered and undisturbed vale of death', for the Trustees of some other smaller parts of the legacy […] again challenged the will.