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Bigwig   /bˈɪgwˌɪg/   Listen
Bigwig

noun
1.
The most important person in a group or undertaking.  Synonyms: kingpin, top banana.





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"Bigwig" Quotes from Famous Books



... of vilifying the provincial woman and believing her depraved, would be able to guess the wonderful unrevealed poetry, every chapter, in short, of the sweet romance of which the last phrase falls to the benefit of some happy sub-lieutenant or some provincial bigwig." ...
— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac
... come to——to inspect the province. He's quite a bigwig now; and writes to me that, as a relation, he should like to see us again, and invites you and me ...
— Fathers and Children • Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev


Words linked to "Bigwig" :   top banana, important person, influential person, personage


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