Biggen vs Biggin - What's the difference?
biggen | biggin |
(rare, obsolete) To make bigger
* {{quote-book, 1837, title=Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, author=Ebenezer Elliott, chapter=Rhymed Rambles, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=zkIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89, page=89
, passage=Our spirits, biggened by their griefs and fears, Sadden and dwindle, with their backward view, All they behold.}}
* {{quote-book, 1898, Margaret Georgina Todd, Mona Maclean, Medical Student, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=m4gfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359, page=359
, passage=What has biggened it?}}
* {{quote-journal, 1914, , , The Cornhill Magazine, volume=104, page=414
, passage=We both belong to a big State, and it's growing bigger every day. I like to think that in my small way I'm helping to biggen it.}}
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(archaic) A child's cap; (figuratively ) childhood.
:* 1819': “my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the '''biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.” — Walter Scott, ''Ivanhoe
* Massinger
(historical) An official's hood or coif.
Coffee pot that has separate areas for heating the coffee and water.
A building; a bigging.
A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured.
As a verb biggen
is to make bigger.As a noun biggin is
a child's cap; (figuratively) childhood.biggen
English
Etymology 1
From . More at (l).Verb
(en verb)citation
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)biggin
English
Etymology 1
From French ''. Compare ''beguine .Noun
(en noun)- An old woman's biggin for a nightcap.