bigging

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English

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Etymology

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From big +‎ -ing.

Verb

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bigging

  1. present participle and gerund of big

Noun

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bigging (plural biggings)

  1. (obsolete) A home. [13th–18th c.]
  2. (Scotland, Northern England) A building, especially an outbuilding. [from 14th c.]
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 18:
      The back door, that behind the pulpit, led out across the kirkyard to the Manse and its biggings, set up in the time of the Old Queen []
  3. Alternative form of biggin (coffee pot with strainer)