wigan

From Wigan (“town in Greater Manchester”).

wigan (countable and uncountable, plural wigans)

1. A canvas-like cotton fabric, often coated with latex rubber, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers, dresses, etc.
   • 1932, Transactions of the Institution of the Rubber Industry, volume 8, page 313:

     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.

• Awngi, awing

wigan

1. romanization of 𐍅𐌹𐌲𐌰𐌽

From Proto-West Germanic *wīgan, from Proto-Germanic *wiganą. Cognate with Old High German wīgan, Old Norse vega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.ɡɑn/, [ˈwiː.ɣɑn]

wigan m

1. inflection of wiga:
   1. accusative/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

wīgan

1. to fight, make war, do battle

• oferwīgan (“to overcome in battle, conquer”)
• wīgend (“soldier, warrior”)
• wigian (“to fight”)

• wīg (“fight, battle, war, strife”)
• wiga (“a fighter, warrior; a man ennobled by his doggedness”)

• Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller (1898) “wīgan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.