wigged-out

Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for April 1, 2021 is: wigged-out \WIGD-OUT\ adjective

: mentally or emotionally discomposed : [upset](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/upset), [crazy](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crazy)

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 a wigged-out soap and Hill Street Blues was technically a police procedural." — [Patrick Freyne, The Irish Times, 5 Jan. 2021](https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/patrick-freyne-s-favourite-art-things-that-should-be-trash-but-are-actually-brilliant-1.4436643)

"Pete Davidson's slow, stoned persona, mixing confessional revelation and wigged-out understatement, is one of the most original and charming in current comedy." — [Noah Berlatsky, NBCNews.com, 12 June 2020](https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/universal-s-king-state-island-stars-pete-davidson-character-we-ncna1230726)

Did you know?

The wig in wigged-out is the one you don to change or enhance your appearance. [Wig](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wig) has been in use since the late 17th century, when it was adopted as a clipped form of [periwig](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/periwig), itself denoting a manufactured covering of natural or synthetic hair for the head. The source of periwig is Middle French perruque (source also of the synonym [peruque](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peruke)). In the American slang of the mid-20th century, the word wig was moving into new territory: wig became a word for the mind, and to "wig out" was to lose one's composure or reason. The idiom "[flip one's wig](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flip%20one's%20wig)" also came into use (sharing the "to become crazy or very angry" meaning of the very similar "[flip one's lid](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flip%20one%27s%20lid)"), and the adjective wigged-out found a home in the language too, describing anyone who was mentally or emotionally discomposed.