Wig vs. Wit — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Wig and Wit
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Definitions
Wig
A wig is a head or hair accessory made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig, which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's The Two Gentlemen of Verona.
Wit
Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write things that are clever and usually funny. Someone witty is a person who is skilled at making clever and funny remarks.
Wig
An artificial covering of natural or synthetic hair worn on the head for personal adornment, as part of a costume, or to conceal baldness.
Wit
The capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence
She does not lack perception or native wit
He needed all his wits to figure out the way back
Wig
To scold or censure.
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Wit
A natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humour
His caustic wit cuts through the humbug
Wig
A head of real or synthetic hair worn on the head to disguise baldness, for cultural or religious reasons, for fashion, or by actors to help them better resemble the character they are portraying.
Wit
Have knowledge
I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of
Wig
A bigwig
Wit
That is to say (used to be more specific about something already referred to)
The textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English
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Wig
An old seal.
Wit
The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence.
Wig
To put on a wig; to provide with a wig (especially of an actor etc.).
Wit
Often wits Practical intelligence; shrewdness or resourcefulness
Living by one's wits.
Wig
To upbraid, reprimand.
Wit
Wits Sound mental faculties; sanity
Scared out of my wits.
Wig
To act in an extremely emotional way; to be overly excited, irritable, nervous, or fearful; behave erratically.
That guy must be high. Look how he's wigging.
Wit
(Archaic) A person of exceptional intelligence.
Wig
To shoot in the head.
Wit
The ability to express oneself intelligently in a playful or humorous manner, often in overturning audience expectations
A writer with a scintillating wit.
Wig
A covering for the head, consisting of hair interwoven or united by a kind of network, either in imitation of the natural growth, or in abundant and flowing curls, worn to supply a deficiency of natural hair, or for ornament, or according to traditional usage, as a part of an official or professional dress, the latter especially in England by judges and barristers.
Wit
A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation
“My mother, the family wit and teaser, knew better than to joke about the disaster” (Donald Hall).
Wig
An old seal; - so called by fishermen.
Wit
Intelligent playfulness or humor in expression, as in speech, writing, or art
Novels known for their wit and inventiveness.
Wig
To censure or rebuke; to hold up to reprobation; to scold.
Wit
To be or become aware of; learn.
Wig
Hairpiece covering the head and made of real or synthetic hair
Wit
To know.
Wig
British slang for a scolding
Wit
Sanity.
He's gone completely out of his wits.
Wit
The senses.
Wit
Intellectual ability; faculty of thinking, reasoning.
Where she has gone to is beyond the wit of man to say.
Wit
The ability to think quickly; mental cleverness, especially under short time constraints.
My father had a quick wit and a steady hand.
Wit
Intelligence; common sense.
The opportunity was right in front of you, and you didn't even have the wit to take it!
Wit
Humour, especially when clever or quick.
The best man's speech was hilarious, full of wit and charm.
Wit
A person who tells funny anecdotes or jokes; someone witty.
Your friend is quite a wit, isn't he?
Wit
Know, be aware of constructed with of when used intransitively.
You committed terrible actions — to wit, murder and theft — and should be punished accordingly.
They are meddling in matters that men should not wit of.
Wit
(Southern American English) with
Wit
To know; to learn.
Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
Thou wost full little what thou meanest.
We witen not what thing we prayen here.
When that the sooth in wist.
Wit
Mind; intellect; understanding; sense.
Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?
A prince most prudent, of an excellentAnd unmatched wit and judgment.
Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.
He wants not wit the dander to decline.
Wit
A mental faculty, or power of the mind; - used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like.
I will stare him out of his wits.
Wit
Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner.
The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.
Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity.
Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy.
Wit
A person of eminent sense or knowledge; a man of genius, fancy, or humor; one distinguished for bright or amusing sayings, for repartee, and the like.
In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.
Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.
A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.
But my five wits nor my five senses canDissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.
Wit
A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
Wit
Mental ability;
He's got plenty of brains but no common sense
Wit
A witty amusing person who makes jokes
