Definitions for whigs

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whigs whig

Spelling: [hwig, wig]

IPA: /ʰwɪg, wɪg/

Whigs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in whigs (ghisw).

Definitions for whigs

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 whigs

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

Examples for whigs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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