# wig
## English
### Etymology

Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. 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

* enPR: wĭg, IPA: /wɪɡ/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪɡ
* Homophone: Whig (wine–whine merger)

### Noun

wig (plural wigs)
* 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.
* A bigwig
** 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 12, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:Ye’ve been grossly deceived and put upon, Milly, and it’s my belief his old ruffian of an uncle in a wig is in the plot against us.
* (dated, among fishermen) An old seal.

#### Synonyms

* hairpiece
* toupee, toupe
* peruke
* periwig

#### Hyponyms

* wiglet

#### Derived terms

* bag wig
* bald wig
* bewigged
* bigwig
* blow one's wig
* bob wig
* Cleopatra wig
* curly wig
* flip one's wig
* fright wig
* get one's wig split
* gooseberry wig
* have one's wig snatched
* landlady's wig
* lawyer's wig
* scratch wig
* trick wig
* wig and falsies
* wig block
* wig cap
* wiggy
* wig head
* wigless
* wiglike
* wiglomeration
* wigmaker
* wig out
* wig-picker
* wig tree
* wig tree fern

#### Descendants

* → Swahili: wigi
* → Thai: วิก (wík)
* → Welsh: wig

#### Translations

Albanian: parukë (sq) f
Arabic: شَعْر مُسْتَعَار m (šaʕr mustaʕār), بَارُوكَة f (bārūka)
Armenian: կեղծամ (hy) (keġcam)
Azerbaijani: parik
Basque: ileorde
Belarusian: пары́к m (parýk)
Bengali: পরচুলা (bn) (porcula)
Bulgarian: перу́ка (bg) f (perúka)
Burmese: ဆံပင်တု (my) (hcampangtu.)
Catalan: perruca (ca) f
Cebuano: tagabong
Chinese:
Mandarin: 假髮 / 假发 (zh) (jiǎfà)
Cornish: peruken f
Corsican: pilucca, pirrucca, parrucca, perrucca f
Czech: paruka (cs) f
Danish: paryk (da) c
Dutch: pruik (nl) m
Egyptian: (bbwt), (fḫt)
Erzya: суречерьть (surečerť)
Esperanto: peruko
Estonian: parukas
Faroese: hárkollur
Finnish: peruukki (fi)
French: perruque (fr) f
Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi)
German: Perücke (de) f
Greek: περούκα (el) f (peroúka)
Ancient: πηνήκη f (pēnḗkē), φενάκη f (phenákē)
Hebrew: פֵּאָה (he) f (peá), פֵּאָה נָכְרִית (he) f (peá nochrít)
Hindi: उपकेश m (upkeś), विग m (vig)
Hungarian: paróka (hu)
Hunsrik: Përuck f
Icelandic: hárkolla (is) f
Ido: peruko (io)
Indonesian: please add this translation if you can
Ingrian: parikka
Irish: bréagfholt m
Italian: parrucca (it) f
Japanese: 鬘 (ja) (かつら, katsura, かずら, kazura), 仮髪 (ja) (かはつ, kahatsu), ウィッグ (ja) (wiggu)
Kazakh: парик (parik)
Khmer: ចំណងសក់ (cɑmnɑɑŋ sɑk)
Korean: 가발(假髮) (ko) (gabal), 덧머리 (ko) (deonmeori) (North Korea)
Kyrgyz: парик (parik)
Lao: ຊ້ອງ (sǭng), ຊ້ອງຜົມ (sǭng phom), ຜົມປອມ (phom pǭm)
Latin: capillamentum n, caliandrum n
Latvian: parūka f
Lithuanian: perukas m
Low German:
German Low German: Prüük f
Luxembourgish: Parréck f
Macedonian: перика f (perika)
Malay: rambut palsu (ms)
Manx: far folt, mwashag
Maori: hururua, makawe kēhua, uru whakapīwari
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Norwegian:
Bokmål: parykk (no) m
Nynorsk: parykk m
Occitan: perruca (oc)
Old English: please add this translation if you can
Ossetian: парик (parik)
Persian: کلاه‌گیس (kolâh-gis)
Plautdietsch: Perrikje f, Pruck f
Polish: peruka (pl) f
Portuguese: peruca (pt) f
Romagnol: piróca f
Romanian: perucă (ro) f
Russian: пари́к (ru) m (parík)
Scottish Gaelic: piorbhaig f, gruag-bhrèige m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: перика f, власуља f
Roman: perika (sh) f, vlasulja (sh) f
Slovak: parochňa f
Slovene: lasulja (sl) f
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: perika f
Upper Sorbian: perika f
Spanish: peluca (es) f
Swahili: wigi (sw)
Swedish: peruk (sv) c
Tagalog: peluka
Tajik: парик (parik)
Thai: ผมปลอม (pǒm-bplɔɔm), วิก (th) (wík)
Turkish: peruka (tr), peruk (tr)
Turkmen: parik
Ukrainian: перу́ка (uk) f (perúka)
Uzbek: parik (uz)
Vietnamese: tóc giả
Volapük: herot (vo), (obsolete) helot
Welsh: wig (cy) m, perwig f, perwigau f pl
Yiddish: פּאַרוק m (paruk) (general term), שייטל n (sheytl) (specifically the sheitel worn by married Orthodox Jewish women) :

### Verb

wig (third-person singular simple present wigs, present participle wigging, simple past and past participle wigged)
* To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
* (transitive, colloquial) To upbraid, reprimand.
* (intransitive, colloquial, slang) To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
    That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging.
* (transitive, MLE, slang) To shoot in the head.
** 2020, CR1 of Hoxton (lyrics and music), “EC1 Block Bully”‎, 1:26:And I don't know nothin bout slippin Zombie killer or rambo twinnin Or a long pole like scaffold Just tryna rise and aim and wig him

#### Related terms

* wiggins
* wig onto
* wig on to
* wig out

#### Translations
### Interjection

wig
* (LGBTQ, Internet slang) An expression of shock. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

#### Related terms

* have one's wig snatched

### See also

* earwig
* merkin
* periwig
* peruke

### See also

* piggy-wig

### Further reading

* wig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Wig in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

## Afrikaans
### Etymology

From Dutch wig.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /vəχ/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

wig (plural wîe)
* wedge
* quoin

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch wegghe, from Old Dutch *weggi, from Proto-West Germanic *wagi, from Proto-Germanic *wagjaz.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʋɪx/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪx

### Noun

wig f (plural wiggen, diminutive wiggetje n)
* wedge
    Synonyms: keg, keil, scheg, spie

#### Derived terms

* wigformatie
* wigsgewijs
* wigvormig

#### Descendants

* Jersey Dutch: wäx, wäxxi

## Gothic
### Romanization

wig
* Romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐌲

## Old English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /wiːj/

### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wīg.

#### Noun

wīġ n
* (poetic or in compounds) war, battle
** 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 5‎:Oft iċ wīġ sēo, frēcne feohtan.I oft see a war, a dangerous battle.

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Derived terms

* ānwīġ
* wīġbora
* wīġcræft
* Wiġlāf

##### Descendants

* Middle English: wiȝe, wi, wy

### Etymology 2

Variant of wēoh.

#### Noun

wīġ m
* idol
* (in compounds) holy, consecrated

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Derived terms

* wīġweorþung (“idol-worship”)
* wīġbed > wēofod (“altar”)
* wīġsmiþ (“idol-carver”)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *wīg, from Proto-Germanic *wīgą, from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-.

#### Noun

wīg n
* war, battle

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *wigi, from Proto-Germanic *wigją, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ- (“to carry; move; transport; ride”).

#### Noun

wig n
* horse, steed

##### Declension
## Welsh
### Etymology

From English wig.

### Noun

wig m or f (plural wigiau or wigs, not mutable)
* wig

### Mutation

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

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “wig”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies