bigg

See also: Bigg

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English biggen, from Old Norse byggja. See boor and bound.

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Verb

bigg (third-person singular simple present biggs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) To build.[1]
    • 1817, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf‎[1], page 78:
      "Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"
    • 1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Worm of Spindlestonheugh”, in Posthumous Poems:
      And whiles she ran, and whiles she grat,
      In the warm sun and the cold,
      Till they came to the bonny castle
      Was bigged upon with gold.

Etymology 2

Of Scandinavian origin.

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Noun

bigg (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of barley.[1]
    The Bigg Market in Newcastle

Etymology 3

Adjective

bigg

  1. Obsolete spelling of big

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “bigg”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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