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Bigg

Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, n. [OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg.] (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

``Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg.''
--New English Dict.

Bigg

Big \Big\, Bigg \Bigg\, v. t. [OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to inhabit, to build, b?a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make ready. See Boor, and Bound.] To build. [Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.]
--Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] ||

Bigg

Bigg \Bigg\, n. & v. See Big, n. & v.

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bigg

vb. (context transitive obsolete Scotland UK dialect English) To build.

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Bigg

BiGG in Bioinformatics is a knowledgebase of Biochemically, Genetically, and Genomically structured genome-scale metabolic network reconstructions.

Bigg is a surname, and may refer to:

  • Henry Bigg, fictional character from The Littles
  • John Stanyan Bigg (1828–1865), British poet
  • Mr. Bigg (1971-2015), American rapper
  • Mr. Bigg

Usage examples of "bigg".

By the time the cumbersome Artoo and Threepio make it down the slope, Biggs and Windy are climbing all over their big brother.

By the time he woke, Mrs Biggs was already busy in his outer room, moving furniture and dusting.

Zipser considered the curious turn of events that had forced him into the role of a master while Mrs Biggs maintained an aggressive servility quite out of keeping with her personality and formidable physique.

It must be that in her fullness Mrs Biggs retained a natural warmth which in its contrast to the artificiality of all else in Cambridge made its appeal.

He put a kettle on to make coffee while Mrs Biggs bustled about picking things up and putting them down again in a manner which suggested that a great deal of work was being done but which merely helped to emphasize her feelings.

He was about to make a dash for the door when Mrs Biggs bent over and undid the clips on the back of the vacuum-cleaner.

Zipser slumped into it and stared at the vacuum-cleaner while Mrs Biggs, bending once again and even more revealingly now that Zipser was sitting down and closer to her, inserted the bag into the back of the machine and switched it on.

Mrs Biggs straightened up and went through to the gyp room to make coffee while Zipser shifted feebly in the chair.

He was about to get up and sneak out when Mrs Biggs came back with two cups of coffee.

The notion of being held down while wriggling by Mrs Biggs was more than he could bear.

Mrs Biggs switched on the vacuum-cleaner and poked the handle round the room.

Mrs Biggs was even more alarming and seemed to indicate schizophrenia with sadomasochistic tendencies.

To have constant and insistent sexual desires for French au pair girls, Swedish language students, girls in Boots, even undergraduates at Girton, was normality itself, but Mrs Biggs came into the category of the unmentionable.

The image of Mrs Biggs, a cross between a cherubim in menopause and a booted succubus, kept intruding.

Zipser turned for escape to a book of photographs of starving children in Nagaland but in spite of this mental flagellation Mrs Biggs prevailed.