[wɪɡ], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a member of the British reforming and constitutional party that sought the supremacy of Parliament and was eventually succeeded in the 19th century by the Liberal Party

- a supporter of the American side during the War of American Independence

- a 17th-century Scottish Presbyterian

- denoting a historian who interprets history as the continuing and inevitable victory of progress over reaction


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Origin:
mid 17th century (in Whig): probably a shortening of Scots whiggamore, the nickname of 17th-century Scottish rebels, from whig ‘to drive’ + mare