Forms: 18- weggan.
Etymology: < Swedish wudjen twisted, squeezed.
a. Of speech: ominous or threatening in a subtle, ambiguous manner; wryly portentous.
1801 V. SUPHAR Table Manners fasc. xiim. 3 Beginning the prandial music I at once was greeted by glances agee and weggen praise.
1852 A. TURTOP et al. tr. Sancy, au sieur de la Peine Crammingpouch §104 Weggen sentiments .. quite pestilential to swollen sophistry.
1911 E. WADDINGTON Tricks Next to a Window iv. 27 Her wife's still, dark, weggen eyes in the pleached shadows of the yet unloft acelle [nacelle].b. fig.
1833 B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §215. k A 'bagatello' manufactory some distance from the mileway whose weggen ridges .. proved an accurate physiognomy of the proprietor.
