biggingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From big +‎ -ing.

動詞

bigging

1. present participle of big

名詞

bigging (複数形 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, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 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”)