noun
Origin: shortened form of whiggamore (applied to Scot Covenanters who marched on Edinburgh in 1648), an erratic form of Scot whiggamaire < whig, a cry to urge on horses + mare, horse
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noun
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Origin: Probably short for Whiggamore, a member of a body of 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian rebels
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