Wigan

//ˈwɪɡən// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc. countable, uncountable

    "It was really no easy matter to build up two or three plies of double warp Wigan with a thin covering of rubber to the accurate gauge that the printer required."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A town and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England.

Example

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""Now, when you described the Wigan coal explosion last month, could you not have gone down and helped those people, in spite of the choke-damp?" "I did." "You never said so." "There was nothing worth bucking about.""

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic, ultimately probably from Latin vicus (“town”) + a diminutive suffix (cf. Welsh gwig + -an).

Etymology 2

From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).

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