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

The Wild-Goat is as bigg and as fleshy as a Hart, but not so long-legg’d.

From The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing by Howlett, Robert

There are fishes as bigg as children of 2 years old.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit

"The craw doesna bigg his nest wi' yae strae!"

From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

A shipp of 500 tuns could passe, soe bigg is the arch.

From French Pathfinders in North America by Johnson, William Henry