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

Its head appears bigg and blunt, and its body tapers from it towads the tail, smaller and smaller, being shap'd almost like a Carret.

From Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Hooke, Robert

‘But that his belly it is soe bigg, His girdle goes wonderous hye; & euer I pray you, Child Waters, Let him go into the chamber with me.’

From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank

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

The pictuer is very ill-favourede, makes me quite out of love with myselfe, the face is so bigg and so fat it pleases mee not at all.

From Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) by Earle, Alice Morse