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• a variation of big.

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

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Example Sentences

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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

In Aprill ... we had a most prodigeous Storme of haile, many of them as bigg as Turkey Eggs, which destroyed most of our younge Mast and Cattell.

From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

I want a very bigg bride doll with a vale and flours an a trunk of close, and all her under-close to buton and unboton and to have pink ribons run into.

From Joy in the Morning by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

But Ive hearde in mye tyme of a state dispatch wyth a bigg redd seale, whych dyd containe four dozen paire of number sixe, ladye's syze.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

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 Robert Burns

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