Whiggamore
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See Whig.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Whiggamore (plural Whiggamores)
- (derogatory, archaic) A Whig.
- 1814 July 7, [Walter Scott], Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:
- the Engagers, and the Protesters, and the Whiggamores Raid, and the Assembly of Divines at Westminster
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “Whiggamore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)