vigging

Updated: May 16, 2025

"I should be very glad, sir; but, to begin with, M. Gaudissart has given me a proper wigging " "Vigging?" "That is one way of saying that he combed my hair for me." "Combed your hair?" "He gave me a scolding for meddling in your affairs.... So we must be very careful if you come to me. But I doubt whether you will stay when you have seen the place; you do not know how we poor devils live."

Honoré de Balzac - Cousin Pons

I shall pay ver' vell; I haf nine hundert vrancs of inkomm, und I haf not ver' long ter lif. . . . I shall gif no drouble vatefer. . . . I can eat onydings I only vant to shmoke mein bipe. Und you are der only von dat haf shed a tear for Bons, mit me; und so, I lof you." "I should be very glad, sir; but, to begin with, M. Gaudissart has given me a proper wigging " "Vigging?"

Honoré de Balzac - Poor Relations