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First published 1974 (SND Vol. IX).
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¶STUNG-WIG, n.comb. “The name given to what in Eng. is called a bob-wig” (Rxb. a.1838 Jam. MSS. XI. 180).
[? For stunt, stunted, short and stumpy, + wig.]
