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Wiggery vs Niggery - What's the difference?

wiggery | niggery |

As a noun wiggery

is (archaic) a wig or wigs; false hair.

As an adjective niggery is

(derogatory|ethnic slur|offensive) of or like a nigger.

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)

    niggery

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (derogatory, ethnic slur, offensive) Of or like a nigger.
  • * 1936 , Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
    • She remembered the hot sun, the soft red earth under her sick head, the niggery smell of the cabin behind the ruins of Twelve Oaks, remembered the refrain her heart had beaten
  • * 2004 , Aidan Higgins, A Bestiality , page 499
    • ...hearing only voodoo incantations and wicked spells and niggery maledictions and sorcery thrown his way.
  • * 2009 , Smith, Mark M, How Race Is Made: Slavery, Segregation, and the Senses , page 138
    • I was at the age when girls love flashy stuff, but Gran called that 'niggery.'” Reba knew “niggery” when she saw it and so altered her own presentation of self.