BIGS
Noun
BIGs
plural of BIG
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• gibs
Noun
bigs
plural of big
Verb
bigs
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of big
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• gibs
Etymology
Proper noun
the Bigs
(informal) Major League Baseball
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• gibs
Source: Wiktionary
BIG
Big, a. [compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.] Etym: [Perh. from Celtic;
cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. baich burden,
Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. biggiligr, (properly) habitable;
(then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. biggen, Icel. byggja, to
dwell, build, akin to E. be.]
1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great
size; large. "He's too big to go in there." Shak.
2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or
produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome. Addison.
3. Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention,
etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice;
big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness
or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument. Jer. Taylor.
Note: Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned;
big-sounding; big-named; big-voiced. To talk big, to talk loudly,
arrogantly, or pretentiously.
I talked big to them at first. De Foe.
Syn.
– Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.
Big, Bigg, n. Etym: [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg,
Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.)
Definition: Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.
"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg." New
English Dict.
Big, Bigg, v. t. Etym: [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to inhabit, to
build, b (neut.) to dwell (active) to make ready. See Boor, and
Bound.]
Definition: To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.] Sir W. Scott.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition