1. trans. To urge forward, drive briskly.
1666–7. G. Blackhal, Brief Narr. (1844), § 8. 163. I did sie the contrie people whigging their meres, to be tymously at the kirk.
2. intr. To jog along.
c. 1690. Killiecrankie, in C. Mackay, Jacobite Songs (1861), 38. The solemn league and covenant, Cam whigging up the hills, man.
1707. De Foe, Trueborn Eng., I. 222. Scots from the northern frozen banks of Tay, With packs and plods came whigging all away.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xxiv. Just when I … was whigging cannily awa hame.
