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wid·get

US/ˈwɪd͡ʒ.ɪt/ uncommon informal

noun

Origin

Coined by American playwright George S. Kaufman in 1924 in his play Beggar on Horseback (1924). The preface to the 1924 play credits an earlier German work from 1911 where there is an actor Elisabeth Wigge.

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