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English

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishbiggen, fromOld Norsebyggja. Seeboor andbound.

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Verb

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bigg (third-person singular simple presentbiggs,present participlebigging,simple past and past participlebigged)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, Scotland, Northumbria) Tobuild.[1]
    • 1817,Walter Scott,The Black Dwarf‎[1], page78:
      "Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"
    • 1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Worm of Spindlestonheugh”, inPosthumous Poems:
      And whiles she ran, and whiles she grat,
      In the warm sun and the cold,
      Till they came to the bonny castle
      Wasbigged upon with gold.

Etymology 2

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Of Scandinavian origin.

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Noun

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bigg (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind ofbarley.[1]
    TheBigg Market in Newcastle

Etymology 3

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Adjective

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bigg

  1. Obsolete spelling ofbig

References

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  1. ↑1.01.1“bigg”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
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