单词 | biggit |
释义 | biggitadj. Scottish. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > [adjective] inhabitate?a1475 peopleda1475 occupied1483 biggitc1485 denizened1557 inhabited1576 dwelt1610 populated1662 unabandoned1745 undeserted1792 empeopled1801 habited1866 lived-in1873 tenanted1886 c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) iii. 21 To..mak reperacioun of euill biggit placis. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xiv. 383 Quhen thai come in biggit land, Wittale and mete yneuch thai fand. 1531 in D. H. Fleming Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. (1921) II. 142/1 All..his bak-land, biggit and waist. 2. Built, erected. Of a person: (well) built. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > [adjective] > strongly biggit1513 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > [adjective] > built ybuldc1380 upbiggedc1425 biggit1513 upwroughtc1540 upframeda1560 builded1563 built1570 erected1603 exstructed1642 upbuilded1859 1513 Act Aberdeen Council 6 Mar. in F. Douglas Gen. Descr. E. Coast Scotl. (1782) xx. 156 Ordainit, that nae person within the burgh nor freedom, have any corn to grind in the new biggit mill of Gilcomstown; under pain of double moulter. 1562 Bk. J. Robeson 179 Ane land and biggit hous. a1614 J. Melville Autobiogr. & Diary (1842) 82 The man was of a grait telyie, weill bigged, of a large face. 1800 R. Bisset Douglas II. vi. 238 Even the Laird himself, though as stout, a weel biggit man as you would see, could never throw within half an ell of your honour. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. viii. 150 Bred in biggit wa's. 1978 A. Fenton Northern Isles xxiii. 201 Such gable hearths were generally set against a backstone, called in Shetland the biggit back-stane, that lay against the wall. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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