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語源

From big +‎ -ass.

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形容詞

big-ass (comparative more big-ass, superlative most big-ass)

1. (originally African-American Vernacular, vulgar, slang) Very large; especially, very large and also expansive, fat, impressive, muscular, intimidating, or important.

   Synonyms: (very large) great, huge, humongous; (very large plus impressive or important) big old, great, honkin'; see also Thesaurus:size

   A: That's one big-ass sandwich you've got there. Where'd you get that thing? B: From the deli on Main Street.

   • 1978, Hubert Selby, Requiem for a dream: a novel, page 155:

     It had two big sliding doors and the whole front was a mirror, one big ass mirror jim.

   • 1990, Richard A. Spears, Richard A. Spears, Forbidden American English, link:

     What is all this talk about some bigass executive coming in to buy this town?

   • 2011, Linda Howard, Prey, page 321

     With flowers and candles and a bigass cake, the fellowship hall sufficed.

   • 2011, Anna Windsor, Captive Heart: A Novel of the Dark Crescent Sisterhood‎, page 395:

     They steered around the courtyard, where they could see the bastards in black sweatshirts and the bigass altered mobsters with big-ass guns holding off the OCU and trying to advance on the Sibyls.

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