big
Meanings
adj
- Of great size, large.
- Fat.
- Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce.
- Well-endowed; with a desired body part notably large.
- Specifically, big-breasted.
- Having a large penis.
- Having large muscles, especially visible ones such as the chest and arm muscles.
- Adult; (of a child) older.
- Old, mature. Used to imply that someone is too old for something, or acting immaturely.
- Mature, conscientious, principled; generous.
- Important or significant.
- Popular.
adv
- In a loud manner.
- In a boasting manner.
- In a large amount or to a large extent.
- (modifying a preposition)
- On a large scale, expansively.
- Hard; with great force.
noun
- Someone or something that is large in stature.
- An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name.
- The big leagues, big time.
- An initiated member of a sorority or fraternity who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little).
- The participant in age roleplay who acts out the older role.
verb
- To inhabit; occupy.
- To locate oneself.
- To build; erect; fashion.
- To dwell; have a dwelling.
noun
- One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley.
noun
- A biological insulation garment; an air-tight, full-body suit intended to prevent the spread of contaminants.
phrase
- Abbreviation of business is a game.
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Etymology
Inherited from Northern Middle English big, bigge (“powerful, strong”), possibly from a dialect of Old Norse. Ultimately perhaps a derivative of Proto-Germanic *bugja- (“swollen up, thick”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰew-, *bu- (“to swell”), in which case big would be related to bogey, bugbear, and bug. Compare dialectal Norwegian bugge (“great man”), Low German Bögge, Boggelmann.
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