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Wiggery vs Waggery - What's the difference?

wiggery | waggery |

As nouns the difference between wiggery and waggery

is that wiggery is (archaic) a wig or wigs; false hair while waggery is droll behaviour characteristic of a wag.

wiggery

English

Noun

(wiggeries)
  • (archaic) A wig or wigs; false hair.
  • * Anthony Trollope
    • There was nothing about their outward appearance of the august wiggery of statecraft, nothing of the ponderous dignity of ministerial position.
  • (archaic) Any cover or screen, such as red-tapism.
    • Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [facts] — Carlyle.
    (Webster 1913)

    waggery

    English

    Noun

  • droll behaviour characteristic of a wag
  • a droll remark or jest