Definitions for Whig

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Whig whig

Spelling: [hwig, wig]

IPA: /ʰwɪg, wɪg/

Whig is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 17 anagrams from letters in Whig (ghiw).

Definitions for Whig

noun

1. American History. a member of the patriotic party during the Revolutionary period; supporter of the Revolution. a member of a political party (c1834–1855) that was formed in opposition to the Democratic Party, and favored economic expansion and a high protective tariff, while opposing the strength of the presidency in relation to the legislature.
2. British Politics. a member of a major political party (1679–1832) in Great Britain that held liberal principles and favored reforms: later called the Liberal party. (in later use) one of the more conservative members of the Liberal party.

adjective

1. being a Whig.
2. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Whigs.

verb (used without object)

1. to move along briskly.

Origin of Whig

1660-70; perhaps Scots variant of dial. fig to move briskly; see fidget

Examples for Whig

Before Abraham Lincoln was a Republican and a staid statesman, he was a whig and a rabble-rouser.

No, not the GOP, but the whig Party, the original party of Lincoln.

For the first time in a century and a half, the whig Party has successfully elected a candidate.

He voted the whig ticket as long as the old whig party had an existence.

There was a somewhat larger whig party, which by word and deed supported Congress.

The prudence which teaches one man to be a whig, will make of another a Utopian.

The party splinters, and out of the wreckage a new center-right “whig Party” emerges.

The stability of the whig administration, then in power, depended upon the results.

Talk-show host Glenn Beck called the GOP “the whig party,” with John Boehner the head whig for appearing open to compromise.

In politics, he was formerly a whig, but now acts with the Democrats.