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BIG-WIG

Date "BIG-WIG" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)


Specialty Definition: BIG-WIG

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Literature

Big-wig (A ). A person in authority, a "nob." Of course, the term arises from the custom of judges, bishops, and so on, wearing large wigs. Bishops no longer wear them. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: BIG-WIG

"BIG-WIG" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "BIG-WIG" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Anagrams: BIG-WIG

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: bigwig.

Words within the letters "b-g-g-i-i-w"

-3 letters: big, gib, gig, wig.

-4 letters: bi.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-g-i-i-w"
 

+1 letter: bigwigs.

 

+3 letters: bewigging.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: BIG-WIG


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 49 47 2D 57 49 47

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01001001 01000111 00101101 01010111 01001001 01000111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#73 &#71 &#45 &#87 &#73 &#71

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0049 0047 002D 0057 0049 0047

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36434115574341

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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