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Definition of Bagwig
1. n. A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.
Definition of Bagwig
1. a type of wig [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bagwig
Literary usage of Bagwig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"As I was discoursing with my friend Eugenio in this impressive way, Lord Buckram
passed us, the son of the Marquis of bagwig, and knocked at the door of the ..."
2. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"bagwig is a sad unromantic name for a poem. ... then, and not bagwig. And,
Dishwash, you may say everywhere, that in my poem of the " Flower-pot," you ..."
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