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wiggy

American  
[wig-ee] / ˈwɪg i /

adjective

Slang.
wiggier, wiggiest
  1. crazy or eccentric.

  2. crazed or delirious.


Etymology

Origin of wiggy

First recorded in 1810–20; wig + -y 1


Example Sentences

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"They looked wiggy and fake. Even some of the real hair ones looked awful quality."

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2023

“Some of Tom’s ideas are pretty wiggy, and at first I thought the Boogie Board was one of them,” former Surfer magazine editor Steve Pezman told The Times in 2001.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

Daylight Matters is as melodic as her earlier work, but possessed of the captivating looseness of her 2016 album Crab Day and her wiggy collaborations with Tim Presley as Drinks.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2019

But even fans of that wiggy early period of Peacock tend to be ignorant of her records from the eighties.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 5, 2018

The wiggy old party up in Cemetery Street?

From Calvary Alley by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Let's put it this way: Jessica Lange, playing the battily malicious neighbor of a troubled California family, is wiggier than she ever has been.

From Slate ● Oct. 4, 2011

It’s the feel-good, lose-yourself record of the year for the wiggiest among us dancing through sweaty, Saturday night mosh pits.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

On campus, where it once was squaresville to flip for the rock scene, it now is the wiggiest of kicks.

From Time Magazine Archive

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