wig-picker
English
Noun
wig-picker (plural wig-pickers)
- (dated) A psychotherapist.
- 1954, Time, page 92:
- Science fiction may be bad science and worse fiction, but to a good wig-picker it "is a sensitive barometer of our changing mental climate.
- 1958, David M. Camerer, The Damned Wear Wings, page 167:
- And I've been up, right with you," snapped the little flight surgeon, "playing wig picker to a flock of kids with nerve sickness.
- 1965, Patrick D. Wall, Trio: The Revolting Intellectuals Organization, page 82:
- I decided that a man full of self-pity was a bloody menace to himself and everyone else, so I went to see that wig-picker Esposito.