wig

Etymology
, itself an alteration of. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!

Pronunciation




Noun

 * 1) A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
 * 2) A bigwig
 * 3)  An old seal.
 * 1)  An old seal.

Translations

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: شَعْر مُسْتَعَار, بَارُوكَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: parik
 * Basque: ileorde
 * Belarusian: пары́к
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:
 * Cebuano: tagabong
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Cornish: peruken
 * Corsican: pilucca, pirrucca, parrucca, perrucca
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian: ,
 * Erzya: суречерьть
 * Esperanto: peruko
 * Estonian: parukas
 * Faroese: hárkollur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: პარიკი
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πηνήκη, φενάκη
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi: उपकेश, विग
 * Hungarian:
 * Hunsrik: Përuck
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian:
 * Ingrian: parikka
 * Irish: bréagfholt
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,
 * Kazakh: парик
 * Khmer: ចំណងសក់
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: парик
 * Lao: ຊ້ອງ, ຊ້ອງຜົມ, ຜົມປອມ
 * Latin: capillamentum, caliandrum
 * Latvian: parūka
 * Lithuanian: perukas
 * Low German:
 * German Low German: Prüük
 * Luxembourgish: Parréck
 * Macedonian: перика
 * Malay:
 * Manx: far folt, mwashag
 * Maori: hururua, makawe kēhua, uru whakapīwari
 * Mongolian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Nynorsk: parykk
 * Occitan:
 * Old English:
 * Ossetian: парик
 * Persian: کلاه‌گیس
 * Plautdietsch: Perrikje, Pruck
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romagnol: piróca
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: piorbhaig, gruag-bhrèige
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: перика, власуља
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: parochňa
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: perika
 * Upper Sorbian: perika
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: peluka
 * Tajik: парик
 * Thai: ผมปลอม,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: parik
 * Ukrainian:
 * Uzbek:
 * Vietnamese: tóc giả
 * Volapük:, helot
 * Welsh:, perwig, perwigau
 * Yiddish: פּאַרוק, שייטל

Verb

 * 1) To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
 * 2)  To upbraid, reprimand.
 * 3)   To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
 * 4)  To shoot in the head.
 * 1)  To shoot in the head.

Interjection

 * 1)  An expression of shock.

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) wedge

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) (poetic or in compounds) war, battle

Etymology 2
Variant of.

Noun

 * 1) idol
 * 2)  holy, consecrated

Etymology 1
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) war, battle

Etymology 2
From, from , from.

Noun

 * 1) horse, steed

Etymology
From.

Mutation
H-prothesis does not affect this word as the ⟨w⟩ here represents the semivowel /w/ rather than a vowel sound.