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Wigg

wɪg
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Wigg
    A kind of raised seedcake. "Wiggs and ale."
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. D. wegge, a sort of bread, G. weck, orig., a wedge-shaped loaf or cake. See Wedge

Usage in the news

Closing day for CF Piggly Wiggly . pde.com

You can get this deal at Piggly Wiggly Birmingham locations today through Saturday. blog.al.com

Piggly Wiggly Midwest here said Wednesday that an independently owned Sendik's store in Brookfield, Wis. Will begin trading under the Piggly Wiggly banner effective Aug 23. supermarketnews.com

Fingerprint IDs & Piggly Wiggly Goes to Market. cioinsight.com

Asia's Tv Picture Is All Wiggly Lines (Int'l Edition). businessweek.com

A Troupe With a Love Of Things Wiggly . nytimes.com

Radiohead's Triumphant, Wiggly Return to the States. rollingstone.com

Thom Yorke, you wiggly madman. rollingstone.com

Closing day for CF Piggly Wiggly. pde.com

Saturday was closing day for the Piggly Wiggly in the Carolina Forest area. pde.com

There's no Bud Light in the cooler at the corner convenience store and no fine wine for sale at the Piggly Wiggly supermarket. crescent-news.com

"Six-year-olds are always wiggly, so you might as well incorporate that into the lesson". kimt.com

There's a Starbucks in the Piggly Wiggly. nytimes.com

Don't take the wiggly stuff too seriously. sltrib.com

Susan Wiggs' Lakeshore Christmas highlighted. bainbridgereview.com

Usage in scientific papers

Each i ∈ Vf (Υ) is adjacent (via a wiggly line) to a unique vertex p(i) ∈ Vs (Υ).
Averaging Fluctuations in Resolvents of Random Band Matrices

Such a factor is depicted graphically using a crossed wiggly line.
Averaging Fluctuations in Resolvents of Random Band Matrices

The following definition gives a natural extension of chain weights to graphs with wiggly edges.
Averaging Fluctuations in Resolvents of Random Band Matrices

Let i (Υ) = 2 and one of the terms vanishes), with the added condition that the summation over the index of i is done with respect to a chain weight (encoded in A(Υ) by the wiggly edge of Υ incident to i).
Averaging Fluctuations in Resolvents of Random Band Matrices

Let Γ ∈ Gp i ∈ Vm (Γ) be marked. (a) Suppose that σ(i, j ) = 0 for all j ∈ Vs (Υ) (i.e. there are no wiggly edges in Υ that join two original summation vertices).
Averaging Fluctuations in Resolvents of Random Band Matrices

Usage in literature

Owners, Wiggs and Co.,' cried Walter. "Dombey and Son" by Charles Dickens

Now, it came to pass that the Goths gained the victory and all the array of Rolf fell, no man save Wigg remaining out of all those warriors. "The Danish History, Books I-IX" by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned")

But who are those WIGGS that think I am turned Tory? "The Journal to Stella" by Jonathan Swift

Mrs. Wiggs's heart was heavy, one night, as she tramped home through the snow after a hard day's work. "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch" by Alice Caldwell Hegan

We must now make it a point to intercept old Wiggs. "Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective" by Frank Pinkerton

The delegates were W. J. Whipper, Robert Smalls, Thomas E. Miller, James Wigg, and L. R. Reed. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920" by Various

Gonna is now Gunn, Serl has given the very common Searle, and Wicga is Wigg. "The Romance of Names" by Ernest Weekley

But what does he mean by the wiggly looking mark before the word center? "The Gold Girl" by James B. Hendryx

Oh, Wiggs, Wiggs, I feel so lonely sometimes with nothing but women all around me. "Once on a Time" by A. A. Milne

She spake something of my needing a Wigg. "The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I" by Various