smallwigEtymologyback-formation from bigwig.nounA minor functionary or stakeholder.“A tent is good enough to shelter the President at night, but if the hacienda of a rich Mexican is sighted toward dusck the Cardenasparty of from ten to 50 horsemen may drop in on the local bigwig whom it is the business of the Six-Year Plan to turn into a smallwig owning not over 381 acres — the theoretical top to which all crop-producing private land holdings in Mexico are ultimately to be reduce”