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Brigge vs Bigge - What's the difference?

brigge | bigge |

As a noun brigge

is .

As an adjective bigge is

.

brigge

English

Noun

  • * c , 1375 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (Canterbury Tales)[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E4DXD7Sk7WcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=brigge&f=false]
  • *:At Trumpyngtoun, nat fer fro Cantebrigge,
  • *:There gooth a brook, and over that a brigge
  • *::At Trumpington not far from Cambridge,
  • *::there goes a brook, and over that a bridge

    • (Webster 1913)

    bigge

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1598, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Sebastian Cabot himselfe named those lands Baccalaos, because that in the Seas thereabout hee found so great multitudes of certaine bigge fishes much like vnto Tunies, (which the inhabitants called Baccalaos) that they sometimes stayed his shippes. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The King of the Paschattowayes had drawen together 1500 bowe-men, which wee ourselves saw, the woods were fired in manner of beacons the night after; and for that our vessel was the greatest that euer those Indians saw, the scowtes reported wee came in a Canoe, as bigge as an Island, and had as many men as there bee trees in the woods. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Wherefore takinge vp a bigge stone, he began againe with greater blowes to beate at the doore.}} ----