bigsome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From big +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

bigsome (comparative more bigsome, superlative most bigsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by bigness; large
    • 1920, Colour - Volume 13:
      “Mother,” I said at last, my heart pounding in too bigsome a fashion for that tiny porch, “maybe our own garden shall take no hurt from a dark flower . .” “Indeed Jan,” she said very fondly, “and I was never the one to reckon it would.”
    • 1906, Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:
      "I don't suppose yer ever felt like sittin' down in the middle of a bigsome prairie an' weepin' yer heart out? Well, I did, I was that dissap'inted. [...]"
    • 2013, Robert Antoni, As Flies to Whatless Boys:
      At each of these discourses he made a deliberate show of dedicating more attention to his pair of half-eaten mutton legs—reclining on a chaise lounge toted by the stewards from deck to parlour to saloon—large white napkin spread diamond-wise over he [sic] bigsome belly.