bigg
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of bigg
1400–50; late Middle English big, bigge < Old Norse bygg barley, cognate with Old English bēow
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
Keepeing very good watch att top mast head, 3 day's after wee saw comeing in a good bigg shipp, came from Carthagene.
From Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents by Jameson, J. Franklin (John Franklin)
And bigg a cart of stone and lyme, Robin Redbreast he must trail it hame.
From Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Sidgwick, Frank
A bigg noze iz sed tew be a sighn ov genius—if a man’s genius lays in hiz noze, i should say the sign waz a good one.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
"The craw doesna bigg his nest wi' yae strae!"
From Patsy by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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