Crossword-Solution: WHIG 4 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Whig	n.	Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
Whig	n.	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 The terms Liberal and Radical have now generally superseded Whig in English politics.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.
Whig	n.	A friend and supporter of the American Revolution; -- opposed to Tory, and Royalist.
Whig	n.	One of the political party in the United States from about 1829 to 1856, opposed in politics to the Democratic party.
Whig	a.	Of or pertaining to the Whigs.

We have 108 clues for the answer “WHIG”

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19th-century Democrat opponent	1 answer
19th-century Democrat's opponent	1 answer
19th-century party	1 answer
Amer. political party of 1776	1 answer
Antiroyalist, in the Revolution	1 answer
BRITISH liberal party	1 answer
Bygone party member	1 answer
Clay or Webster	1 answer
Clay was one	1 answer
Daniel Webster was one	1 answer
Defunct political party	1 answer
Democrat's rival circa 1850	1 answer
Democratic opponent of yore	1 answer
Early 1800s Democratic opponent	1 answer
Early American political party	1 answer
Early American politico	1 answer
Early Democrat's adversary	1 answer
Early Democrat's foe	1 answer
Fillmore was the last president who was one	1 answer
Fillmore was the last presidential one	1 answer
Fillmore's party	1 answer
Fillmore, for one	1 answer
Fillmore, politically	1 answer
Former opponent of the Tories	1 answer
GOP forerunner.	1 answer
Harrison, e.g., but not Ford	1 answer
Henry Clay's party	1 answer
Henry Clay, politically	1 answer
Jacksonian detractor	1 answer
John Tyler or Millard Fillmore	1 answer
John Tyler, for one	1 answer
Kit-Cat Club member in 18th-century London	1 answer
Like four U.S. presidents	1 answer
Lincoln while in Congress, e.g.	1 answer
Loyalist's opponent in '76	1 answer
Millard Fillmore was one	1 answer
Millard Fillmore's political party	1 answer
Millard Fillmore, for one	1 answer
Millard Fillmore, partywise	1 answer
Nineteenth-century Democrat opponent	1 answer
One of the more conservative members of the Liberal Party in British politics	1 answer
Onetime Democrat rival	1 answer
Opponent of James II	1 answer
Party formed to oppose "King Andrew" Jackson	1 answer
Party opposed to king Andrew Jackson	1 answer
Political party founded by Henry Clay in the 1830s	1 answer
President Taylor or Fillmore	1 answer
Pro-independence colonial American	1 answer
Republican forerunner	1 answer
Republican predecessor	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ERTEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with WHIG (5)

Had it been otherwise—had an active politician been put into this influential post, to assume the easy task of making head against a Whig Collector, whose infirmities withheld him from the personal administration of his office—hardly a man of the old corps would have drawn the breath of official life within a month after the exterminating angel had come up the Custom-House steps.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

The silver-gray whig shakes hands with the hunker democrat; the former only differing from the latter in name.

My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1995

Hyndman or the horns of his followers; but by the mere glacier movement of the political soil, bearing forward on its bosom, apparently undisturbed, the proud camps of Whig and Tory.

Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

The public became Stuart-mad, and everybody, specially the women, said, "What a pity it was that we hadn't a Stuart to govern." All parties, Whig, Tory, or Radical, became Jacobite at heart, and admirers of absolute power.

The Romany Rye George Borrow 2007

See how they bepraise their patrons, the grand Whig nobility, who hope, by raising the cry of liberalism and by putting themselves at the head of the populace, to come into power shortly.

Lavengro George Borrow 2006

Quotes with WHIG (3)

Mankind were intended to be happy... that government being only the means of securing freedom and happiness to the people, whenever it deviates from this end, and their freedom and happiness are in great danger of being irrevocably lost, the government is no longer entitled to their allegiance. ("The Principles of an American Whig"-1777)

Jamie Iredell

It'll be an unholy muddle, that's for sure," he was saying. "Me and Hardin and Baker all with our claws out for the same seat. The thing will have to be done carefully or we'll end up with out tidy little Whig house divided.""Why don't you take turns?""It's worth thinking about, but no matter how much you'd like politics to be a cotillion it just naturally wants to be a dirt fight.

Stephen Harrigan A Friend of Mr. Lincoln

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

Abraham Lincoln

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 112 times in crossword archives (1963–2024).