WHIGGAMORE
\wˈɪɡɐmˌɔː], \wˈɪɡɐmˌɔː], \w_ˈɪ_ɡ_ɐ_m_ˌɔː]\
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By Noah Webster.
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hwig'a-m[=o]r, n. originally a person who came from the west and south-west of Scotland to Leith to buy corn: one of the 7000 Western Covenanters who marched on Edinburgh in 1648, sealing the doom of Charles I.: a Scotch Presbyterian, a WHIG. [Traced by some to whiggam, a sound used by the peasantry of the western Lowlands in driving their horses; others derive from whig, sour whey. Not derivable from whig (1) and Gael. mor, great.]
By Thomas Davidson