bigg
bigg verb: to build. Also the obsolete spelling of big.
Verb
bigg (third-person singular simple present biggs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)
- To build.
- "Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"1817, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, page 78
- And whiles she ran, and whiles she grat,
In the warm sun and the cold,
Till they came to the bonny castle
Was bigged upon with gold.1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Worm of Spindlestonheugh”, in Posthumous Poems
Noun
bigg (uncountable)
- A kind of barley.
- The Bigg Market in Newcastle
Proper noun capitalized: Bigg
Bigg
- A surname
Also used as
bigg is also the obsolete spelling of big.
Forms of bigg
| third-person singular present | biggs |
|---|---|
| present participle | bigging |
| past participle | bigged |
| past | bigged |
| alternative form | big |
Origin of bigg
From Middle English biggen, from Old Norse byggja. See boor and bound.
Of Scandinavian origin.
* As an English surname, from Middle English bigge (“big”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English big (“building”), derived from biggen (“dwell, build”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Bick. Compare Big.
Questions about bigg
- What does bigg mean?
- Bigg means to build.
- What part of speech is bigg?
- Bigg can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- What is the past tense of bigg?
- The past tense of bigg is bigged.
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