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Bigwig   Listen
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Bigwig  n.  A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society. (Jocose) "In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the bigwigs with extreme condescension."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Bigwig" Quotes from Famous Books



... because George had not prospered in the world. Sir Henry had prospered signally—would probably prosper much more signally. Might it not be safely predicated of a man who was solicitor-general before he was thirty, that he would be lord-chancellor or lord chief-justice, or at any rate some very bigwig indeed before he was fifty? So of course ...
— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

... Jove, will he patronise me? I know you'll marry some awful bigwig, or some terribly clever fellow; ...
— Doctor Thorne • Anthony Trollope



Words linked to "Bigwig" :   influential person, personage



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