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Red Wig
Slang, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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William Lyon Mackenzie, 1795-1861, leader of the radical Reformers responsible for the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada (a derogatory allusion to his red hair).
Quotations
1833
The Common's house groaned and the Council responded,/ To think with Red Wig you so long corresponded.
1833
Red-wig and I are turn-coats baith
Tho' not on the same pin--
Red Wig has turned him inside out,
But I've turned outside in.