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• wĭg
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• /wɪɡ/
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• rhymes with -ɪɡ
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• homophone: Whig (wine–whine merger)
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Clipping of periwig, itself an alteration of French perruque. The meaning of "to reprimand" perhaps came from this being something a bigwig would do or perhaps from the expressions to flip one's wig, wigs on the green, or dash my wig!

114 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: parukë — head of artificial hair
• Arabic: شَعْر مُسْتَعَار (šaʕr mustaʕār) — head of artificial hair
• Arabic: بَارُوكَة (bārūka) — head of artificial hair
• Armenian: կեղծամ (keġcam) — head of artificial hair
• Azerbaijani: parik — head of artificial hair
• Basque: ileorde — head of artificial hair
• Belarusian: пары́к (parýk) — head of artificial hair
• Bengali: পরচুলা (porcula) — head of artificial hair
• Bulgarian: перу́ка (perúka) — head of artificial hair
• Burmese: ဆံပင်တု (hcampangtu.) — head of artificial hair
• Catalan: perruca — head of artificial hair
• Cebuano: tagabong — head of artificial hair
• Chinese Mandarin: 假髮 /假发 (jiǎfà) — head of artificial hair
• Cornish: peruken — head of artificial hair
• Corsican: pilucca — head of artificial hair
• Corsican: pirrucca — head of artificial hair
• Corsican: parrucca — head of artificial hair
• Corsican: perrucca — head of artificial hair
• Czech: paruka — head of artificial hair
• Danish: paryk — head of artificial hair
• Dutch: pruik — head of artificial hair
• Egyptian: D58-D58-Z7:X1-D3 (bbwt) — head of artificial hair
• Egyptian: I9:Aa1-X1-O30-D3 (fḫt) — head of artificial hair
• Erzya: суречерьть (surečerť) — head of artificial hair
• Esperanto: peruko — head of artificial hair
• Estonian: parukas — head of artificial hair
• Faroese: hárkollur — head of artificial hair
• Finnish: peruukki — head of artificial hair
• French: perruque — head of artificial hair
• Georgian: პარიკი (ṗariḳi) — head of artificial hair
• German: Perücke — head of artificial hair
• Greek: περούκα (peroúka) — head of artificial hair
• Ancient Greek: πηνήκη (pēnḗkē) — head of artificial hair
• Ancient Greek: φενάκη (phenákē) — head of artificial hair
• Hebrew: פֵּאָה (peá) — head of artificial hair
• Hebrew: פֵּאָה נָכְרִית (peá nochrít) — head of artificial hair
• Hindi: उपकेश (upkeś) — head of artificial hair
• Hindi: विग (vig) — head of artificial hair
• Hungarian: paróka — head of artificial hair
• Hunsrik: Përuck — head of artificial hair
• Icelandic: hárkolla — head of artificial hair
• Ido: peruko — head of artificial hair
• Ingrian: parikka — head of artificial hair
• Irish: bréagfholt — head of artificial hair
• Italian: parrucca — head of artificial hair
• Japanese: 鬘 — head of artificial hair
• Japanese: 仮髪 (kahatsu) — head of artificial hair
• Japanese: ウィッグ (wiggu) — head of artificial hair
• Kazakh: парик (parik) — head of artificial hair
• Khmer: ចំណងសក់ (cɑmnɑɑŋ sɑk) — head of artificial hair
• Korean: 가발 (gabal) — head of artificial hair
• Korean: 덧머리 (deonmeori) — head of artificial hair
• Kyrgyz: парик (parik) — head of artificial hair
• Lao: ຊ້ອງ (sǭng) — head of artificial hair
• Lao: ຊ້ອງຜົມ (sǭng phom) — head of artificial hair
• Lao: ຜົມປອມ (phom pǭm) — head of artificial hair
• Latin: capillamentum — head of artificial hair
• Latin: caliandrum — head of artificial hair
• Latvian: parūka — head of artificial hair
• Lithuanian: perukas — head of artificial hair
• Low German: Prüük — head of artificial hair
• Luxembourgish: Parréck — head of artificial hair
• Macedonian: перика (perika) — head of artificial hair
• Malay: rambut palsu — head of artificial hair
• Manx: far folt — head of artificial hair
• Manx: mwashag — head of artificial hair
• Māori: hururua — head of artificial hair
• Māori: makawe kēhua — head of artificial hair
• Māori: uru whakapīwari — head of artificial hair
• Norwegian Bokmål: parykk — head of artificial hair
• Norwegian Nynorsk: parykk — head of artificial hair
• Occitan: perruca — head of artificial hair
• Ossetian: парик (parik) — head of artificial hair
• Persian: کلاهگیس (kolâh-gis) — head of artificial hair
• Plautdietsch: Perrikje — head of artificial hair
• Plautdietsch: Pruck — head of artificial hair
• Polish: peruka — head of artificial hair
• Portuguese: peruca — head of artificial hair
• Romagnol: piróca — head of artificial hair
• Romanian: perucă — head of artificial hair
• Russian: пари́к (parík) — head of artificial hair
• Scottish Gaelic: piorbhaig — head of artificial hair
• Scottish Gaelic: gruag-bhrèige — head of artificial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: перика — head of artificial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: власуља — head of artificial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: perika — head of artificial hair
• Serbo-Croatian: vlasulja — head of artificial hair
• Slovak: parochňa — head of artificial hair
• Slovene: lasulja — head of artificial hair
• Lower Sorbian: perika — head of artificial hair
• Upper Sorbian: perika — head of artificial hair
• Spanish: peluca — head of artificial hair
• Spanish: zorongo — head of artificial hair
• Swahili: wigi — head of artificial hair
• Swedish: peruk — head of artificial hair
• Tagalog: peluka — head of artificial hair
• Tajik: парик (parik) — head of artificial hair
• Thai: ผมปลอม (pǒm-bplɔɔm) — head of artificial hair
• Thai: วิก (wík) — head of artificial hair
• Turkish: peruka — head of artificial hair
• Turkish: peruk — head of artificial hair
• Turkmen: parik — head of artificial hair
• Ukrainian: перу́ка (perúka) — head of artificial hair
• Uzbek: parik — head of artificial hair
• Vietnamese: tóc giả — head of artificial hair
• Volapük: herot — head of artificial hair
• Volapük: helot — head of artificial hair
• Welsh: wig — head of artificial hair
• Welsh: perwig — head of artificial hair
• Welsh: perwigau — head of artificial hair
• Yiddish: פּאַרוק (paruk) — head of artificial hair
• Yiddish: שייטל (sheytl) — head of artificial hair
• Spanish: cabellar — Translations
• Spanish: cabellarse — Translations