bigwiggism

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bigwiggism (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Bigwiggery. [19th c.]
    • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book II, chapter 17:
      ‘I didn't like what I saw when I was studying there—so much empty bigwiggism, and obstructive trickery.’