1. whig - Noun
2. whig - Adjective
3. whig - Verb
Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
One of a political party which grew up in England in the seventeenth century, in the reigns of Charles I. and II., when great contests existed respecting the royal prerogatives and the rights of the people. Those who supported the king in his high claims were called Tories, and the advocates of popular rights, of parliamentary power over the crown, and of toleration to Dissenters, were, after 1679, called Whigs. The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics. See the note under Tory.
A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
Of or pertaining to the Whigs.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe idea of sovereignty current in the English speaking world of the 1760s was scarcely more than a century old. It had first emerged during the English Civil War, in the early 1640s, and had been established as a canon of Whig political thought in the Revolution of 1688. Bernard Bailyn
The country was divided between the Whig and Democratic organizations. The Democratic Party then, as now, was in open alliance with slavery, in a conspiracy against the Constitution and the peace of the country. George William Curtis
And very obedient to me she was when a little child, before you took her in hand and spoiled her, by filling her head with a pack of court notions. Why-why-why-did I not overhear you telling her she must behave like a princess? You have made a Whig of the girl! Henry Fielding
Consider the Essay as a political pamphlet on the Revolution side, and the fact that it was the Whig gospel for a century, and you will see its working merit. Frederick Pollock
A sound Conservative government... Tory men and Whig measures. Benjamin Disraeli
A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer --that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffling, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two. William Hazlitt