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biggin
1[ big-in ]
noun
, Archaic.
- a close-fitting cap worn especially by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- a soft cap worn while sleeping; nightcap.
biggin
2[ big-in ]
noun
- a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.
biggin
1/ ˈbɪɡɪn /
noun
- a plain close-fitting cap, often tying under the chin, worn in the Middle Ages and by children in the 17th century
biggin
2/ ˈbɪɡən /
noun
- a construction, esp a house or cottage
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Word History and Origins
Origin of biggin1
1520–30; < Middle French beguin kind of hood or cap, originally one worn by a Beguine
Origin of biggin2
After Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor
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Word History and Origins
Origin of biggin1
C16: from French béguin ; see beguine
Origin of biggin2
see big ²
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Example Sentences
Almost as doubtful are the theories which would make the 'old mill' at Newport a Norse 'biggin.'
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The coffee biggin, said to have been invented by a Mr. Biggin, came into common use in England for making coffee about 1817.
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Any coffee pot with such a bag fitted into its mouth came to be spoken of as a coffee biggin.
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A favorite device is the earthenware jug with or without the cotton sack that makes it a coffee biggin.
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The Triumph coffee filter was a cloth-bag device which made any coffee pot a biggin.
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