Apr. 1st 2021 wigged-out

Definition

:mentally or emotionally discomposed:upset,crazy

精神或情感上的失衡：心神不宁，发狂

Did You Know?

Thewiginwigged-outis the one you don to change or enhance your appearance.Wighas been in use since the late 17th century, when it was adopted as a clipped form ofperiwig, itself denoting a manufactured covering of natural or synthetic hair for the head. The source ofperiwigis Middle Frenchperruque(source also of the synonymperuque). In the American slang of the mid-20th century, the wordwigwas moving into new territory:wigbecame a word for the mind, and to "wig out" was to lose one's composure or reason. The idiom "flip one's wig" also came into use (sharing the "to become crazy or very angry" meaning of the very similar "flip one's lid"), and the adjectivewigged-outfound a home in the language too, describing anyone who was mentally or emotionally discomposed.

wigged-out中的“wig”就是指人们穿戴的假发。wig 在17世纪晚期开始在英语中出现，来来源于“periwig“，表示在头上覆盖人造毛发。“periwig”来源于中世纪法语 perruque（该法语单词还有同义词 peruque）。在20世纪中期的美国俚语中，单词 “wig”被赋予了新的含义：wig 被用来表示心智，“wig out”相当于“lose one‘s composure or reason”。习语“flip one‘s wig”也开始被使用（同时也有变得疯狂或非常生气的含义，非常像“flip one's lid” 这句话的含义），形容词“wigged-out”也在语言使用中有了一席之地，表示精神或情感上的失调。

don-wear 穿戴

periwig-戴假发

composure：沉着、镇定

keep/lose/recover/regain your composure

保持/失去/恢复冷静

Examples

"The idea that you might take a television drama very seriously is accepted now.… The difference with Buffy was that the delivery mechanism was teenage-girl-focused horror, just as David Lynch's Twin Peaks was supposedly just awigged-outsoap and Hill Street Blues was technically a police procedural." —Patrick Freyne,The Irish Times, 5 Jan. 2021

policeprocedural

police procedural-警察程序作品；现实反应警察办案的小说、电影或电视剧

"Pete Davidson's slow, stoned persona, mixing confessional revelation andwigged-outunderstatement, is one of the most original and charming in current comedy."—Noah Berlatsky,NBCNews.com, 12 June 2020