An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

* WIFE, WYF, WYFE, s. A woman, whether married or single, generally, one past middle age, S.
Lyndsay.

A. S. Su. G. wif, mulier, foemina.

Wiflie, Wyfelie, adj. Feminine, belonging to woman.
Bellenden.

A. S. wiflic, muliebris, foemineus.

WYG, WEIG, WHIG, s. A small oblong roll, baked with butter and currants, S.

Teut. wegghe, panis triticeus; libum oblongum, et libum lunatum.

WIG, WYG, s. Apparently, a wall. A thing is said to gang frae wyg to waw, when it is moved backwards and forwards from the one wall of a house to the other, S. B.
Ross.

A. S. wag, Su. G. waegg, Belg. weeg, paries.

WIGG, WHIG, s. The thin serous liquid, which lies below the cream, in a churn, after it has become sour, and before it has been agitated, S. B.
Journ. Lond.

To WIGGLE, v. n. To wriggle.
V. [Waigle].