bigg

American  

[big] / bɪg /

Or big

noun

Scot. and North England.

1. four-rowed barley.

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Etymology

Origin of bigg

1400–50; late Middle English big, bigge < Old Norse bygg barley, cognate with Old English bēow

Example Sentences

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

And she's gar'd bigg a new ship, 10 Wi' vanes o' flaming goud, Wi' mony a knight and mariner, Sae stark in need bestow'd.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

Those that uses to be where the buffes be are not so bigg, but about the bignesse of a coach horse.

From Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson by Radisson, Pierre Esprit

There dwalls a lady in Danmarck, Lady Hillers lyle men her ca'; And she's gar'd bigg a new castell, That shines o'er Danmarck a'.

From English and Scottish Ballads, Volume I (of 8) by Various

The Scull being opened, both the Cerebrum and Cerebellum were bigg in proportion to the Body; and out of it run much more Bloud, than was seen in both the other Regions together.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry