biggin
1[big-in]
- a close-fitting cap worn especially by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- a soft cap worn while sleeping; nightcap.
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Origin of biggin
1biggin
2[big-in]
- a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.
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Origin of biggin
2after Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor
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Historical Examples of biggin
Hardly second in merit to this method is the use of the French "biggin" or "grecque."
Six Cups of CoffeeMaria Parloa
Various modifications of the biggin, or French filter coffee-pot, are in use.
Six Cups of CoffeeMaria Parloa
Mither, mither, I'm biggin' a bonny hoose for ye to leeve in!
Cleg Kelly, Arab of the CityS. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Mosportant Scosh quesh'n. Joost your neebor's biggin in a low!
Did you always make coffee with a biggin in France, Mrs. Pasmer?
April HopesWilliam Dean Howells
biggin
1biggon
- a plain close-fitting cap, often tying under the chin, worn in the Middle Ages and by children in the 17th century
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Word Origin for biggin
C16: from French béguin; see beguine
biggin
2- Scot a construction, esp a house or cottage
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Word Origin for biggin
see big ²
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