wigg

See also: Wigg

English

Alternative forms

• wig

Etymology

Compare Dutch wegge (“a sort of bread”), German Weck, originally a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See wedge.

Noun

wigg (plural wiggs)

1. A kind of raised seedcake.
   • 1664 April 18 (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:

     Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs […] and ale.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “wigg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)