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noun

Bigg, Big n. (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. ""Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg.""

verb

Bigg, Big v. t. To build. (Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.)

adjective

Big adj. (compar. bigger; superl. biggest)

Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large. "He's too big to go in there."

Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; often figuratively. "(Day) big with the fate of Cato and of Rome."

Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride. "God hath not in heaven a bigger argument." Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced.

To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously. "I talked big to them at first."

Synonyms: Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.

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"Big" Quotes from Famous Books

... almost necessarily more intent on party manoeuvres than on the welfare of the young nations he rules. Our colony alone—the two Canadas—is bigger than Great Britain and Ireland three times over. Take in all along Vancouver's Island, and it's as big as Europe. There's a pretty considerable slice of the globe for one man to manage! But forty-two other colonies have to be managed as well; and I guess a nursery of forty-three children of all ages left to one care-taker would ...

— Cedar Creek - From the Shanty to the Settlement • Elizabeth Hely Walshe

... into his clothes and led him to the big chair in the studio. He sat quietly waiting under strained nerves for the darkness to lift. It did not lift that day, nor the next. Dick adventured on a voyage round the walls. He hit his shins against the stove, and this suggested to him that it ...

— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling

... with activity, the well-known primrose-coloured automobile will drive up to the entrance and the Emperor, accompanied only by a single adjutant, will emerge. In three minutes William II will be seated at a big, business-like table placed in the stalls, before him a pile of paper and an array of pencils. When he is in the house there is no doubt whatever in anyone's mind as to who is conducting the rehearsal. His intendant stands at his side in the darkened auditorium and conveys ...

— William of Germany • Stanley Shaw

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— The Kopje Garrison - A Story of the Boer War • George Manville Fenn

... quelled the exiles always fled for refuge to that empire. It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Many hundred large volumes have been published upon this controversy; but the books of the Big-endians have been long forbidden, and the whole party rendered incapable by law of holding employments. During the course of these troubles, the emperors of Blefuscu did frequently expostulate by their ambassadors, accusing us of making a schism in religion by offending ...

— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 • Charles Sylvester

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