wig and falsies en · NOUN
Etymology
An allusion to cross-dressing.
Meanings
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(colloquial, figuratively, plural, plural-only) An attempt to make something look like something else without significantly altering its core functionality.
I am a consummate, dyed-in-the-wool, classic Eudora fan, and Mozilla Thunderbird - or for that matter any three-pane user interface email client dating back to Claris Emailer - is simply not my cup of tea, so dressing T-bird up in a Eudora wig and falsies is not going to cut it for me, or a lot of other Eudora aficionados.
2008 April 21, Charles Moore, “Odysseus Cometh: The Real Successor to Eudora”, in Low End Mac, archived from the original on 12 Jul 2021:Don't put a fake wig and falsies on your advertised product.
1953, Harvey Whipple, Concrete, volume 61, page 39: