bigwig

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
16
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈbɪɡ.wɪɡ/

Definition of bigwig

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (informal)A person of importance in a group or organization.
    “The company bigwig is gathering his staff together for a meeting today.”
    “[…] more innocently, and no doubt profitably, than if he had dined at a big-wig's board or bemused himself with smoke and beer among his brethren of the pen.”
    “Before her hay-day, she attended many derbys under her dad's celebrity where she'd hobnob with the bigwigs in Millionaire's Row.”

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Etymology

First arose in the 1730s, from big + wig. Formerly, English men of authority wore wigs. Bigwig plays on the idea that higher authority is denoted by a larger wig.

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4 words

2-letter words

2 words

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