Sc. and north. Also 7 wigge, 9 wyg. [a. ON. veggr wall (cf. RIG sb.2 = ON. hregg). Cf. WIG-LOUSE.] Only in phr. from wig to wall, backwards and forwards, from pillar to post.
1600. W. Watson, Decacordon (1602), 239. Tossed from poste to piller, from wigge to wall, by a restles course of miseries.
1768. Ross, Helenore, II. 99. Mind what this lass has suffer’d now for you,… How she is catcht for you frae wigg to wa.
1808. Jamieson, s.v., A thing is said to gang frae wyg to waw, when it is moved backwards and forwards from the one wall of a house to the other.
