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biggings

biggings is the plural of bigging.

Meaning of bigging

Noun

bigging (plural biggings)

  1. (obsolete) A home.
  2. (Northern England, Scotland) A building, especially an outbuilding.
    • The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings, set up in the time of the Old Queen […]1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 18

Questions about biggings

What is biggings the plural of?
Biggings is the plural of bigging.

Words near biggings in the dictionary

  1. biggifying
  2. biggin
  3. Biggin Hill
  4. bigging
  5. bigging up
  6. biggings
  7. biggins
  8. biggish
  9. biggishness
  10. biggity
  11. Biggleswade

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