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say it: wig
whig is a noun meaning "a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories". It is pronounced /ˈwɪɡ/ — wig. It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
a supporter of the American Revolution
a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for whig come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.