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Whig
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English
Etymology
From Whiggamore, possibly from Scots whiggamore (“horse driver”), from whig (“to drive”) + mare.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʍɪɡ/, /wɪɡ/; enPR: hwĭg, wĭg
- Rhymes: -ɪɡ
- Homophones: whig; wig (wine–whine merger)
Noun
Whig (plural Whigs)
- (UK politics, historical) A member of an 18th- and 19th-century political party in Britain that was opposed to the Tories, and eventually became the Liberal Party.
- Antonym: Tory
- 2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
- One was a piece, Two Cheers for the Whig Interpretation of History, by William Cronon, president of the American Historical Association.
- (UK politics, rare) A member (especially a politician) of the former Liberal Party or its successor, the Liberal Democrats.
- (US politics, historical) An advocate of war against, or independence from, Britain during the American Revolution.
- Antonym: Tory
- (US politics, historical) A member of a 19th-century US political party opposed to the Democratic Party.
- Antonyms: Democrat, Jacksonian Democrat
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (UK): Tory
- (US): Federalist
- (UK): Lib Dem, Labour
- (Canada): Grit
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