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Gigging vs Wigging - What's the difference?

gigging | wigging |

As verbs the difference between gigging and wigging

is that gigging is while wigging is .

As a noun wigging is

(uncountable) the action of the verb to wig .

gigging

English

Verb

(head)

    • wigging

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (uncountable) The action of the verb to wig .
  • (countable, British, Ireland, colloquial, dated) A telling-off or reprimand.
  • * 1888 , , "Thrown Away", Plain Tales from the Hills (Folio Society 2005, p. 18)
    • His Colonel talked to him severely when the cold weather ended. That made him more wretched than ever; and it was only an ordinary ‘Colonel's wigging ’!