Crossword-Solution: WIGAN
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wigan | n. | A kind of canvaslike cotton fabric, used to stiffen and protect the lower part of trousers and of the skirts of women's dresses, etc.; -- so called from Wigan, the name of a town in Lancashire, England. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| WIGAN | anagram | AWING |
We have 13 clues for the answer “WIGAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| CANVAS-like fabric | 1 answer |
| Fabric used for interlining | 1 answer |
| Greater Manchester town with an Athletic Football Club | 1 answer |
| HEM-stiffening cloth | 1 answer |
| Orwell's "The Road to ___ Pier" | 1 answer |
| Stiffening fabric | 1 answer |
| Plain-weave cotton fabric | 2 answers |
| stiff fabric | 7 answers |
| CITY NEAR MANCHESTER | 11 answers |
| MANCHESTER Metropolitan County, area of the Greater (Eng.) | 26 answers |
| ENGLISH borough | 31 answers |
| BRITISH soccer club/team | 53 answers |
| BRITISH football club/team | 54 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARETE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WIGAN (5)
Alfred Wigan’s, under similar circumstances, in the ‘Nabob.’ Alfred Wigan’s father was an unforgettable man.
But if you paused to watch the lambs play, or disturbed a young calf in your path, he would almost involuntarily exclaim: ‘How deliciously you smell of mint, my pet!’ or ‘Bless your innocent face! What sweetbreads you will provide!’ James Wigan had kept a school once.
Wigan, probably giving him full credit for his gratitude, always spoke of him as ‘Poor old Paddy Donovan.’ With Alfred Wigan, the eldest son, I was on very friendly terms.
Albany Fonblanque, whose experiences began nearly forty years before mine, and who was not given to waste his praise, told me he considered Alfred Wigan the best ‘gentleman’ he had ever seen on the stage.
During their journey it fell from my Lord Derby's lips, that when he had been defeated at Wigan, one Pendrell, an honest labourer and a Papist, had sheltered him in Boscobel House, not far distant from where they then rode.
Quotes with WIGAN (2)
In his article, Bogen concluded: “I believe [with Wigan] that each of us has two minds in one person. There is a host of detail to be marshaled in this case. But we must eventually confront directly the principal resistance to the Wigan view: that is, the subjective feeling possessed by each of us that we are One. This inner conviction of Oneness is a most cherished opinion of Western Man. . . .
It is a Lancashire custom to be on the defensive. We anticipate jokes about rain, "bi gum," and Wigan; we expect people to peer at us through the thin layer of smoke they fancy they see around our heads.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1987–2001).