bigging

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noun

A home.

First used 13th–18th c.Scrabble 12
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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of big
nounbigging (plural biggings)

plural biggings

  1. obsoleteA home.First known use 13th–18th c.
  2. Northern EnglandScotlandA building, especially an outbuilding.First known use 14th c.

    The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings, set up in the time of the Old Queen […]

    1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 18
  3. alternativeAlternative form of biggin (“coffee pot with strainer”).

Origin

From big + -ing.

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APA

bigging. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigging

MLA

“bigging.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigging. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bigging,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bigging.

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