wig 
wig (wig)
noun
- a false covering of real or synthetic hair for the head, worn as part of a costume, to conceal baldness, etc.
- toupee
- ☆ Slang variously, the hair, head, or mind
Etymology: shortened < periwig
transitive verb wigged, wig′·ging
- to furnish with a wig or wigs
- ☆ Slang
- to annoy, upset, anger, etc.
- to make excited, ecstatic, frenzied, crazy, etc.: often with out
- Brit., Informal to scold, censure, rebuke, etc.: archaic except as a verbal noun [gave him a wigging]
intransitive verb
Slang to be or become wigged, or upset, excited, crazy, etc.: often with out
wig
n.
Converse of object
- don: But Aldridge soon donned wigs and white make-up and moved on to non-black parts such as Macbeth, Shylock and King Lear.
- wear: They wore wigs of gray lichen beneath their red caps.
- dress: He wears his own hair but for formal occasions would have a powdered wig dressed high and tied at the back.
- buy: You may decide to buy a wig privately instead.
- choose: I had to come to terms with losing my hair, and we had fun going to choose a wig.
Adjective modifier
- blond: There, in teased blond wig, goes Chick with a Dick; Satan trots by in search of a sandwich.
- powdered: I think your own powdered wig has slipped down over your eyes.
- curly: For a laugh, I did buy a red, curly wig which Andy remembers being orange.
- blond: Your wife drapes a blond wig over your monitor to remind you of what she looks like.
- bald: Minnie Banister: Rubbish - why should I wear a bald wig - I'm already bald.
- acrylic: Acrylic wigs can be washed and they usually last between 6 and 9 months.
Modifies a noun
- mistress: The company, rather than paying for a wigs mistress, had agreed to pay her extra money each week for this added responsibility.
- maker: The son of William Turner, a barber & wig maker.
- department: Ha ha - Hang on, you've got a wig department at your disposal?
Noun used with modifier
- afro: Car flags, woofer cheer horns, afro wigs, .. .
- horsehair: There are proposals to stop the Judges from wearing their horsehair wigs.
- fright: Why is Fiennes wearing the same funny red fright wig that Stephen Rae was sporting in The Butcher Boy?
- ginger: In the previous scene Nurse Slapper had worn a ginger wig in two wild bunches.
- chest: Did I specifically request Magnum P.I. 's chest wig to be crammed into such tiny and personal apertures?
- hair: Despite the cost some people prefer to have a real hair wig.
'Mindandmatter,'saidthelady inthewig,'glideswift into the vortex of immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.'
In the foreground is that strange figure which is as familiar to us as the figures of those among whom we havebeenbrought up, thegigantic body, thehugemassy face, seamed with the scars of disease, the brown coat, the black worsted stockings, the grey wig with the scorched foretop, the dirty hands, the nails bitten and pared to the quick.
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