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Webster 1913 Edition

Bigwig

Big′wigˊ

,

Noun.

[

Big

,

Adj.

+

wig

.]

A person of consequence;

as, the

bigwigs

of society

.

[Jocose]

In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the

bigwigs

with extreme condescension.

Dickens.