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How to pronounce whig in English?

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Type Words
Type of englishman, liberal, liberalist, progressive
Type Words
Type of pol, politician, politico, political leader
Type Words
Type of supporter, booster, champion, friend, protagonist, admirer

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New places tend to whig me out a little for the first few nights at least.
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Whig Party leader Henry Clay sided with Daniel Webster on these issues.
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In the early 1950s Hunt emerged as one of the nation's most controversial champions of right-whig causes.
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Whig households would collect locks of Fox's hair, books of his conflated speeches and busts in his likeness.
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Whig dominance would grow to be so great under George that the Tories would not return to power for another half-century.
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Tate argues it is structured as a forensic historiography modeled on the techniques of 18th-century whig lawyers.
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Whig statesmen led the charge for tradition and custom against the prevailing democratic ethos of the Jacksonian Era.
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Whig PresidentMillard Filmore, the Whig who had gained the presidency after the death of Zachary Taylor, grew increasingly unpopular.
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Whig n.2, whiggamore, and tory 1. a.
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  • A member of the political party that urged social reform in 18th and 19th century England; was the opposition party to the Tories
  • A supporter of the American Revolution
  • A member of the Whig Party that existed in the United States before the American Civil War
  • The White House Iraq Group (aka, White House Information Group or WHIG) was the marketing arm of the White House whose purpose was to sell the 2003 invasion of Iraq to the public. ...
  • The Whigs were a party in the British Parliament who contested with the rival Tories from the 1680s to the 1850s. The Whigs' origin lay in constitutional monarchism and opposition to absolute rule. ...
  • The Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. Considered integral to the Second Party System and operating from the early 1830s to the mid-1850s , the party was formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his ...
  • (The whigs) The Whigs are a garage rock band from Athens, Georgia.
  • Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage; buttermilk; Urge forward; drive briskly; Jog along; move or work briskly
  • (Whigs) The name used by advocates of colonial resistance to British measures during the 1760s and 1770s. ...