bigg

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verb

To build.

“The Bigg Market in Newcastle”

OriginMiddle English biggen ← Old Norse byggja →
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Meanings

bigg1

verbbigg (third-person singular simple present biggs, present participle bigging, simple past and past participle bigged)

present singular third person biggs · participle present bigging · participle past bigged · past bigged · alternative big

  1. NorthumbriaScotlandobsoletetransitiveTo build.

    "Biggin' a dry stane dyke [...]"

    1817, Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf, page 78
    1 more example

    And whiles she ran, and whiles she grat, In the warm sun and the cold, Till they came to the bonny castle Was bigged upon with gold.

    1912, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Worm of Spindlestonheugh”, in Posthumous Poems

bigg2

nounbigg (uncountable)

alternative big

  1. obsoleteuncountableA kind of barley.

    The Bigg Market in Newcastle

bigg3

adjective
  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of big

Bigg4

proper noun
  1. A surname

Origin

bigg · verb

  1. Old Norsebyggja
  2. Middle Englishbiggen
  3. Englishbigg

From Middle English biggen, from Old Norse byggja. See boor and bound.

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bigg · noun

Of Scandinavian origin.

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Bigg · proper noun

  1. Middle Englishbig“building”
  2. Middle Englishbigge“big”
  3. EnglishBigg

* As an English surname, from Middle English bigge (“big”). * Also as an English surname, from Middle English big (“building”), derived from biggen (“dwell, build”). * As a German surname, Americanized from Bick. Compare Big.

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bigg,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigg.

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