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bigg

American  

[big] / bɪg /

Or big

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. four-rowed barley.

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Etymology

Origin of bigg

1400–50; late Middle English big, bigge < Old Norse bygg barley, cognate with Old English bēow

Example Sentences

He learned that the dodo would eat these stones – "some as bigg as nutmegs" – as an aid to digestion.

From The Guardian • Jun. 28, 2013

I. The noble Maxwells and their powers Are coming o’er the border, And they’ll gae bigg Terreagle’s towers, An’ set them a’ in order.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

There dwalls a lady in Danmarck, Lady Hillers lyle men her ca'; And she's gar'd bigg a new castell, That shines o'er Danmarck a'.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

For this he look't so bigg; and euery morn With a red face confes't his scorn.

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard

The lower part of that opening is as bigg as a tower, and grows bigger in the going up.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit