WHIGMALEERY

PRONUNCIATION: (hwig-muh-LIR-ee)

MEANING: noun:
1. A whim.
2. A fanciful contrivance.

ETYMOLOGY: It’s a Scots term, but we know little about it beyond that. Earliest documented use: 1730.
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SHIGMALEERY - a drunk describing his distrust for sums (or standard deviations)

WHIGMALEVERY - a mechanical voting machine with a bias for Liberalism

WHIGGALEERY - worried about a shimmy