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語源

Compare Dutch wegge (“a sort of bread”), German Weck, originally a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See wedge.

名詞

wigg (plural wiggs)

1. A kind of cake or bun made with seeds.
   • 1664 April 18 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 8th, 1664”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume V, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC:

     Home to the only Lenten supper I have had of wiggs […] and ale.

2. Obsolete spelling of wig

参照

• “wigg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.