On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:58:29 -0500, Quinn C
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lispa...@crommatograph.info> wrote:
>* Quinn C:
>
>> I've been watching "Gilmore Girls" recently, and noticed that in
>> the show, people are often referred to as being "wigged", "wigged
>> out" or "wigging".
>
>And now, they've added "wiggy" to the mix. They really like this
>root.
>
>Some dictionaries give an unrelated meaning to "wiggy" - "pompous"
>- but I don't think that was meant on GG.
The OED gives two senses:
wiggy, adj.
1. [ < wig n.3 + -y suffix1.] Wearing, or distinguished by, a
wig, bewigged; sometimes implying ‘extremely grave, formal, or
ceremonious’.
1817 M. Edgeworth Harrington & Ormond I. vi. 121 And there's our
old apothecary..has taken such a fancy to her, but he's too old
and wiggy.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 198 Those of the wisest and
wig-iest members of the fraternity.
....
2. [ < wig v.2 3] Mad, crazy, ‘freaky’. U.S. slang.
1963 L. Deighton Horse under Water xxii. 96, I just got some new
jazz records from the States, Ace. Pretty wiggy.
1972 Last Whole Earth Catal. (Portola Inst.) 31/1 Traditionally
considerations such as his — economics, organizations, the future
— turn a prophet's soul terrible and dark or at least partially
wiggy.
1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. Nov.–Dec. 26/2 ‘Poor devil,’ she added,
‘he blew the star's fuse when we went wiggy for the Thin Man on a
cross.’
wig, v.2
3. [perhaps < wig v.1 or wig n.3 1.] intr. With out. To be
overcome by extreme emotion; to be stimulated to the point of
imbalance; to go mad, ‘freak out’. U.S. slang.
--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)