slang or colloq. ? Obs. [f. WIG sb.3: see -BY 2.] A jocular appellation for a person wearing a wig. So wigster in same sense.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar T., Mr. Wigsby, a man wearing a wig.
1797. Mrs. M. Robinson, Walsingham, III. 337. Tip old wigsby a twitch of the heart, in return for his golden padlock.
1821. Sporting Mag. (N. S.), VII. 267. He was answered by the aforesaid wigsters, that it was ‘Impossible separer les deux.’
1830. H. Ingelo, Remin., II. 119. I left these two wigsbys, puffed up with pride and self-confidence.
1842. Lover, Handy Andy, xxi. The … forms … were borrowed from the chapel: the old wigsby, who had the care of them … doubted the propriety.
