What is "biggish"

Usage examples of "biggish".

Francis Tyne was a thin, earnest youth with a biggish head and fine colorless hair.

We had 370 Pounds in notes and gold, a biggish bag of silver, a lot of cheques -- some of which would be sure to be paid -- seven gold watches and a lot of silver ones, some pretty good.

But of course some allowance had to be made for men not making much above wages when they came suddenly on a biggish stone, and sticking the pick into it found it to be a gigantic nugget worth a small fortune.

And on the coast opposite there is what looks like the mouth of a biggish river--with some towns, no doubt, not far up.

There was a biggish kraal in the bottom, and a lot of goats and leggy Kaffir sheep on the slopes.

But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came.

And on the coast opposite there is what looks like the mouth of a biggish river--with some towns, no doubt, not far up.

They could wedge ten or fifteen biggish rocks under it in five minutes.

But by and by, as said, this evening after sundown, the wind sitting in the west, biggish swollen clouds to be seen as the night increased and the weatherwise poring up at them and some sheet lightnings at first and after, past ten of the clock, one great stroke with a long thunder and in a brace of shakes all scamper pellmell within door for the smoking shower, the men making shelter for their straws with a clout or kerchief, womenfolk skipping off with kirtles catched up soon as the pour came.

When the corks are in, a long chunk of their main street and a biggish settlement will be cut off.