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bygly

bygly is the obsolete form of bigly.

Meaning of bigly

Adjective (1)

bigly (comparative more bigly, superlative most bigly)

  1. (humorous, nonstandard) Big league.
    • It had been the very bestest of bigly weekends. Two rounds of golf at his very own course in Turnberry.2025 July 28, John Crace, “Sidekick Starmer can’t get a word in as The Donald dominates world’s most one-sided double act”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Adjective (2)

bigly (comparative more bigly, superlative most bigly)

  1. (Scotland, now obsolete elsewhere) Habitable, liveable; hence delightful, pleasant, pleasing.
    • "And steek it weel, thy biglie bower, / And by the rood thee sain; / And tell thy bedes in haly guise, / Till this ae night is gane!"1806, Robert Jamieson, “Donul and Evir”, in Robert Jamieson, editor, Popular Ballads and Songs, from Tradition, Manuscripts, and Scarce Editions; with Translations of Similar Pieces from the Ancient...

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Forms of bygly

Adjective
comparativemore bygly
superlativemost bygly
Adverb
comparativemore bygly
superlativemost bygly

Questions about bygly

What is bygly the obsolete form of?
Bygly is the obsolete form of bigly.

Words near bygly in the dictionary

  1. Byfords
  2. byform
  3. byforms
  4. bygan
  5. Byglandsfjord
  6. bygly
  7. bygone
  8. bygones
  9. Bygott
  10. Bygrave
  11. Bygraves

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bygly (page history and authors); bigly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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