Definitions for effigy

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effigy ef·fi·gy

Spelling: [ef-i-jee]

IPA: /ˈɛf ɪ dʒi/

Effigy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in effigy (effgiy).

Definitions for effigy

noun

1. a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
2. a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.

Idioms

1. in effigy, in public view in the form of an effigy:

Origin of effigy

1530-40; (Middle French) Latin effigia, equivalent to effig- (ef- ef- + fig- shape, form; see figure) + -ia -y³

Examples for effigy

Criminals who evade punishment by flight are to be hanged in effigy.

So I adopt an explanation that I take from the anthropologists: burial in effigy.

Possibly the informer could not have said why he was so zealous for the removal of the effigy.

If diplomatic relations keep deteriorating, an effigy of the queen may not be far behind.

Somebody built an effigy of President Peña Nieto that was 20 feet high.

In May, an effigy of FitzPatrick was burned on the streets of Dublin.

The Southern chivalry howled, and hanged or burned some one in effigy.

Meanwhile, in South Yorkshire, anti-Thatcher activists burned an effigy of the controversial leader.

He was buried in his own cathedral where his effigy still remains.

When the civilian President Maduro burns in effigy, soldiers can still warm their hands around the flames.