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English : from the Breton personal name Wiucon, composed of elements meaning ‘worthy’ + ‘high’, ‘noble’, which was introduced into England by followers of William the Conqueror.English : from the Germanic personal name Wīgant, originally a byname meaning ‘warrior’, from the present participle of wīgan ‘to fight’, likewise introduced to England in the wake of the Conquest.English : Many American bearers of this name are descended from Thomas Wiggin who came to Boston, MA, in 1631.
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English : variant of English Wigginton.
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English : variant of English Wigginton.
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English (East Anglia) : nickname from Middle English wigge ‘beetle’, ‘bug’.English (East Anglia) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of fancy breads baked in rounds and then divided up into wedge-shaped slices, Middle English wigge, from Middle Dutch wigge ‘wedge(-shaped cake)’.
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English : habitational name from any of the places in Hertfordshire, Oxfordshire, Staffordshire, and North Yorkshire named Wigginton, from the Old English personal name Wicga + genitive -n or -ing- + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English : patronymic from Wigg.
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English : variant of Wiggin.German : variant of Weigand (see Wiegand).
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English : variant spelling of Wigglesworth.
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English : variant spelling of Wiggins.
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English : patronymic from the personal name Wiggin.
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English : variant of Wigginton.
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English (West Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place in Ribblesdale, North Yorkshire, recorded in Domesday Book as Winchelesuuorde, from the genitive case of the Old English byname Wincel meaning ‘child’ + Old English worð ‘enclosure’.Michael Wigglesworth (1631–1705), Puritan poet and preacher, was brought from Yorkshire to New England as a child in 1638. His first home was in Charlestown, MA; subsequently, he settled in New Haven, CT. From 1651 onward he was a fellow of Harvard College; in 1654 he was appointed minister at Malden, MA. His son and grandson, both named Edward were professors of divinity at Harvard.
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n.
A wig or wigs; false hair.
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The aquatic larva of a gnat; -- called also, colloquially, wiggler.
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Any one of various species of gnats of the genus Culex and allied genera. The females have a proboscis containing, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvae and pupae, called wigglers, are aquatic.
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characterized by pomposity of manner.
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The young, either larva or pupa, of the mosquito; -- called also wiggletail.
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Act of wiggling; a wriggle.
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Any cover or screen, as red-tapism.
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Alt. of Wig
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To move to and fro with a quick, jerking motion; to bend rapidly, or with a wavering motion, from side to side; to wag; to squirm; to wriggle; as, the dog wiggles his tail; the tadpole wiggles in the water.
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Having the head covered with a wig; wearing a wig.
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