Definition of: Whiggamore

(hwig′ə·môr, -mōr) noun
1. A member of a body of insurgents who in 1648 marched on Edinburgh and opposed the compromise with Charles I.
2. In the later 17th century, a Scotch Presbyterian; a Whig (def. 3). Also Whig′a·more. [Prob. <dial. E (Scottish) whiggamaire <whig a cry to urge on a horse + mere a horse]