[f. WHIG sb.2] trans. To behave like a Whig towards; intr. to play the Whig.
1681. T. Flatman, Heraclitus Ridens, No. 39 (1713), I. 258. They will Whig us bravely indeed, if by the Pretences of the Fear of Popery and Arbitrary Government, Flanders and Germany should … fall into the Scale of France.
1695. in C. Mackay, Jacobite Songs (1861), 43. Say, was it foul, or was it fair, To come a hunder mile and mair, For to ding out my daddy’s heir, And dash him wi’ the whiggin o’t.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xxxvi. I think he will hardly neglect the parade of the feudal retainers, or go a-whigging a second time.
1832. Lytton, in Life, etc. (1883), II. VIII. i. 280. They Whigged everything they touched. They gauged and docketed all the objects of Poetry.
