Whig English

Meaning Whig meaning

What does Whig mean?

Whig

— noun a member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories

— noun a member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War

— noun a supporter of the American Revolution

Synonyms Whig synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as Whig?

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whey

sour milk

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curdle

buttermilk

Examples Whig examples

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Will they indeed? From past observations, sir, they appear to believe that any scalp is welcome. Whig or Tory, man, woman or child.

To the Whig, puffing in parliament, it is license to do anything, provide it do not disturb his pleasure.

Do you take me entirely for a Whig, sir?

Lord Hollingford's a good man, Father, and he's got a first-class scientific brain. Man's a Whig. They're all Whigs.

I don't want you meeting foreigners in a Whig house. - Nor you, Osborne.

But we, the Whig Party, simply see this as just, right and sensible.

Well, I have great sympathy with your sentiments in general, but I fail to fully comprehend how farwe, the Whig Party, that is, are fully committed to the concept of freedom.

What star wears a whig and what other had surgery.

Whig.

It seems to me you've made her into a Whig puppet.

Harriet Sutherland and Emma Portman are both married to Whig ministers.

Four of your ladies are married to Whig ministers.

Your daughter has told Peel she will not get rid of any of those Whig harpies that surround her and now Peel won't form a government unless she does.

Well, I have great sympathy with your sentiments in general, but I fail to fully comprehend how far we, the Whig Party, that is, are fully committed to the concept of freedom.

Drunk. -Whig.

To the Whig, puffing in parliament, it is licence to do anything, provide it do not disturb his pleasure.

Man's a Whig. They're all Whigs.

Utopian, whig, vegetarian.

He speculated that in dining with so prominent a Whig, I'd hear talk of peace and views favourable to the revolution.

The true Whig is as patriotic as any Tory in the land.

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The Whig historian of the nineteenth century Thomas Macaulay described this difference well.