biggn.

Brit.

/bɪɡ/, U.S.

/bɪɡ/, Scottish English

/bɪɡ/

Forms: late Middle English byge, late Middle English (1800s– English regional) byg, late Middle English–1500s 1700s– big, 1500s bygge, 1500s (1800s English regional) bygg, 1500s–1600s (1900s– historical) bigge, 1700s– bigg (English regional); Scottish 1700s– big, 1800s– bigg.

Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic bygg , Norn (Shetland) big , Old Swedish biug (Swedish bjugg ), Old Danish biug (Danish byg ) barley), cognate with Old English bēow barley, ultimately < the same Indo-European base as be v.

Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern). Now chiefly historical.

A hardy variety of barley grown mainly in northern England and Scotland. Cf. bere n.¹.Now considered to be one of the cultivated varieties of Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare, this type of barley was previously known as H. tetrastichum because it appears to have four rows of grains in the ear.barley-bigg, Scotch bigg: see the first elements.Recorded earliest in compounds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > types of barley or barley-plant

polbere1440

bigg1446

long-ear?1523

sprat-barley?1523

waybent1538

wall barley1548

barley-bigg1552

bigg-barley1562

polbarley1574

pilled barley1578

way bennet1578

wheat-barley1578

French barley1596

way barley1597

rough bere1642

palm-barley1706

Scotch barley1707

square barleya1722

Thor-barley1755

ware-bere1793

barley-grass1795

German rice1828

battledore barley1848

1446 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 95 Item j whetridell, j bigridell.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726 Hoc exaticum, hec mixtilio, byge.

1547 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 127 I gyue to George Bayts a chaldre of Bygg & a chalder of hauer.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/1 Bigge, corne, hordeum quadratum.

1633 in W. H. D. Longstaffe Acts High Comm. Court Durham (1858) 57 And did violently carrie awaie the tieth beare or bigge.

1726 R. Bradley Country Gentleman & Farmer's Monthly Director 14 You may likewise now sow big or four-row'd Barley, which will just bring as much more Grain as the common two-row'd Barley.

1797 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Northumberland vii. 270 It [sc. the land] is ploughed again in April, and sown with four bushels of barley or bigg.

1805 R. Parkinson Tour in Amer. ii. xiv. 321 The sort of barley sown in the fall is termed in Great-Britain big or beer.

1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 453 Oats & bear or big with a little barley, are the kinds of grain.

1882 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 444 Used for husking big, or four-rowed barley.

1904 T. F. Hunt Cereals in Amer. xxi. ii. 324 The type is known as four-rowed barley..frequently called bere or bigg in England.

1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm ix. 75 The ‘English barley’ is typical of the botanical type known as nutans , or nodding barley, and the ‘Byg’ (now known as ‘Bere’) is the characteristic ‘four-row barley’ of the botanical type vulgare.

2006 L. Moffett in C. M. Woolgar et al. Food in Medieval Eng. 49 In varieties where the ear is long and lax it may appear that there are only four rows of grains. This four-rowed barley was the type called bere or bigge.

Compounds

† bigg-barley n. Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > types of barley or barley-plant

polbere1440

bigg1446

long-ear?1523

sprat-barley?1523

waybent1538

wall barley1548

barley-bigg1552

bigg-barley1562

polbarley1574

pilled barley1578

way bennet1578

wheat-barley1578

French barley1596

way barley1597

rough bere1642

palm-barley1706

Scotch barley1707

square barleya1722

Thor-barley1755

ware-bere1793

barley-grass1795

German rice1828

battledore barley1848

1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. f. 16 The seconde kinde is called in Latin Hordeum Tetrastichum, in Englishe, bigge barley or beare or bigge alone. This kind groweth muche in y^e North country.

1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 64 Called..of our English northerne people..Big Barly.

1796 W. Strickland Let. 20 May in T. Jefferson Papers (2002) XXIX. 104 It is here [sc. England] known under the name of Bigg, or Bigg-barley, is cultivated only on the Northern Mountains of this Island, and used for the inferior purposes of feeding pigs or poultry.

† bigg-market n. [Preserved as a place name in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.] Obsolete

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for other specific goods

woman market1443

bigg-marketa1733

stock-market1858

a1733 H. Bourne Hist. Newcastle (1736) vii. 77 Out of a House in the Bigg-Market.

1864 Sat. Rev. 29 May Most strangers would be inclined to think that the ‘Bigg Market’ meant the large one.

† bigg-riddle n. Obsolete a coarse-meshed sieve, used for separating chaff from barley (see riddle n.² 1a).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > sieving > sieve or riddle

riddereOE

riddlelOE

boultel1266

temse?1362

reeing-sieve1378

bolt-clothc1425

bolt-pokec1440

bulstarec1440

bigg-riddle1446

oat riddle1446

bolting-tunc1485

bolter1530

bolting-tub1530

bolting-pipe1534

bolting-poke1552

gingerbread temse?1562

bolting-hutch1598

reeving-sieve1613

hutch1619

temzer1696

ree1728

oat-ridder1743

harp1788

bunt1796

bolting-machine1808

sowens-say1825

slap-riddle1844

bolt1847

flour-bolt1874

purifier1884

flour-bolter1888

plansifter1905

1446Bigridell [see main sense].

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bigg
释义	biggn. Brit. /bɪɡ/, U.S. /bɪɡ/, Scottish English /bɪɡ/ Forms: late Middle English byge, late Middle English (1800s– English regional) byg, late Middle English–1500s 1700s– big, 1500s bygge, 1500s (1800s English regional) bygg, 1500s–1600s (1900s– historical) bigge, 1700s– bigg (English regional); Scottish 1700s– big, 1800s– bigg. Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic bygg , Norn (Shetland) big , Old Swedish biug (Swedish bjugg ), Old Danish biug (Danish byg ) barley), cognate with Old English bēow barley, ultimately < the same Indo-European base as be v. Scottish and English regional (chiefly northern). Now chiefly historical. A hardy variety of barley grown mainly in northern England and Scotland. Cf. bere n.¹.Now considered to be one of the cultivated varieties of Hordeum vulgare subsp. vulgare, this type of barley was previously known as H. tetrastichum because it appears to have four rows of grains in the ear.barley-bigg, Scotch bigg: see the first elements.Recorded earliest in compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > types of barley or barley-plant polbere1440 bigg1446 long-ear?1523 sprat-barley?1523 waybent1538 wall barley1548 barley-bigg1552 bigg-barley1562 polbarley1574 pilled barley1578 way bennet1578 wheat-barley1578 French barley1596 way barley1597 rough bere1642 palm-barley1706 Scotch barley1707 square barleya1722 Thor-barley1755 ware-bere1793 barley-grass1795 German rice1828 battledore barley1848 1446 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 95 Item j whetridell, j bigridell. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 726 Hoc exaticum, hec mixtilio, byge. 1547 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 127 I gyue to George Bayts a chaldre of Bygg & a chalder of hauer. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kii/1 Bigge, corne, hordeum quadratum. 1633 in W. H. D. Longstaffe Acts High Comm. Court Durham (1858) 57 And did violently carrie awaie the tieth beare or bigge. 1726 R. Bradley Country Gentleman & Farmer's Monthly Director 14 You may likewise now sow big or four-row'd Barley, which will just bring as much more Grain as the common two-row'd Barley. 1797 J. Bailey & G. Culley Gen. View Agric. Northumberland vii. 270 It [sc. the land] is ploughed again in April, and sown with four bushels of barley or bigg. 1805 R. Parkinson Tour in Amer. ii. xiv. 321 The sort of barley sown in the fall is termed in Great-Britain big or beer. 1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. XII. 453 Oats & bear or big with a little barley, are the kinds of grain. 1882 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 9 444 Used for husking big, or four-rowed barley. 1904 T. F. Hunt Cereals in Amer. xxi. ii. 324 The type is known as four-rowed barley..frequently called bere or bigg in England. 1948 G. D. H. Bell Cultivated Plants Farm ix. 75 The ‘English barley’ is typical of the botanical type known as nutans , or nodding barley, and the ‘Byg’ (now known as ‘Bere’) is the characteristic ‘four-row barley’ of the botanical type vulgare. 2006 L. Moffett in C. M. Woolgar et al. Food in Medieval Eng. 49 In varieties where the ear is long and lax it may appear that there are only four rows of grains. This four-rowed barley was the type called bere or bigge. Compounds † bigg-barley n. Obsolete ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > cereal, corn, or grain > [noun] > barley > types of barley or barley-plant polbere1440 bigg1446 long-ear?1523 sprat-barley?1523 waybent1538 wall barley1548 barley-bigg1552 bigg-barley1562 polbarley1574 pilled barley1578 way bennet1578 wheat-barley1578 French barley1596 way barley1597 rough bere1642 palm-barley1706 Scotch barley1707 square barleya1722 Thor-barley1755 ware-bere1793 barley-grass1795 German rice1828 battledore barley1848 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball ii. f. 16 The seconde kinde is called in Latin Hordeum Tetrastichum, in Englishe, bigge barley or beare or bigge alone. This kind groweth muche in y^e North country. 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 64 Called..of our English northerne people..Big Barly. 1796 W. Strickland Let. 20 May in T. Jefferson Papers (2002) XXIX. 104 It is here [sc. England] known under the name of Bigg, or Bigg-barley, is cultivated only on the Northern Mountains of this Island, and used for the inferior purposes of feeding pigs or poultry. † bigg-market n. [Preserved as a place name in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.] Obsolete ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > market > [noun] > market-place > for other specific goods woman market1443 bigg-marketa1733 stock-market1858 a1733 H. Bourne Hist. Newcastle (1736) vii. 77 Out of a House in the Bigg-Market. 1864 Sat. Rev. 29 May Most strangers would be inclined to think that the ‘Bigg Market’ meant the large one. † bigg-riddle n. Obsolete a coarse-meshed sieve, used for separating chaff from barley (see riddle n.² 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [noun] > sieving > sieve or riddle riddereOE riddlelOE boultel1266 temse?1362 reeing-sieve1378 bolt-clothc1425 bolt-pokec1440 bulstarec1440 bigg-riddle1446 oat riddle1446 bolting-tunc1485 bolter1530 bolting-tub1530 bolting-pipe1534 bolting-poke1552 gingerbread temse?1562 bolting-hutch1598 reeving-sieve1613 hutch1619 temzer1696 ree1728 oat-ridder1743 harp1788 bunt1796 bolting-machine1808 sowens-say1825 slap-riddle1844 bolt1847 flour-bolt1874 purifier1884 flour-bolter1888 plansifter1905 1446Bigridell [see main sense]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1446
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