wig

noun
🔊/wɪɡ/
🔊/wɪɡ/
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  1. a piece of artificial hair that is worn on the head, for example to hide the fact that a person is bald, to cover somebody’s own hair, or by a judge and some other lawyers in some courts of law假发
    • Do you think she was wearing a wig?你觉得她戴着假发吗?
    • The wig seemed to perch on his head.那假发好像是搭在他头上。
    • Who's that man in the wig?那个戴着假发的人是谁?
    Topics Appearancec1, Clothes and Fashionc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • blond
    • Afro
    • curly
    verb + wig
    • have on
    • sport
    • wear
    preposition
    • in a/​the wig
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    Word Originnoun late 17th cent.: shortening of periwig.

wig

verb
🔊/wɪɡ/
🔊/wɪɡ/
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they wig
🔊/wɪɡ/
🔊/wɪɡ/
he / she / it wigs
🔊/wɪɡz/
🔊/wɪɡz/
past simple wigged
🔊/wɪɡd/
🔊/wɪɡd/
past participle wigged
🔊/wɪɡd/
🔊/wɪɡd/
-ing form wigging
🔊/ˈwɪɡɪŋ/
🔊/ˈwɪɡɪŋ/
Phrasal Verbs
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    Word Originwig out. early 19th cent.: apparently from the noun wig, perhaps from bigwig and associated with a rebuke given by a person in authority.