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largie (複数形 largies)

1. (informal) A largemouth bass.
   • 2008, Virginia Wildlife - Volume 69, (Please provide the book title または journal name), page 122:

     The fisheries biologist also says other species seen during their surveys besides fat largies include bluegill, black crappie, redear sunfish, pumpkinseed, brown bullhead and channel catfish.

   • 2013, Sportsman's Connection, West-Central Michigan Fishing Map Guide, →ISBN, page 76:

     You'll want to use spinnerbaits to catch the largies, or toss topwater plugs working gaps in the vegetation.

   • 2015 October 2, “Take advantage of fall fishing opportunities”, in The Kingston Whig-Standard:

     Thick vegetation, lily pads, weed beds and any sort of cover is a typical summer home for a largie.

2. (informal) Anything that is unusually large.
   • 1815, Thomas Cutwode, Caltha Poetarum, Or, The Bumble Bee:

     And, by the way, for sweete Saint Charitie, He begs his largies of th' outlandish hives.

   • 1975, British Columbia Lumberman - Volume 59, page 112:

     Is big beautiful to the middle line management of the largies? I take my coral hard hat off to the men who directly manage the big logging camps on this coast of B.C.

   • 2007, Gaetano Rando & Gerry Turcotte, Literary and Social Diasporas: An Italian Australian Perspective, →ISBN:

     While the artichokes barbecue away and your Australian neighbours ring the fire brigade and police, you and your family and friends stand around and joke and laugh and drink Stanthorpe or Ballandean wine that you bottled yourself out of a few great barrels you had them send up: of course the bottling-bottles are empties of old Fourex largies or Schweppes lemonade, because why let them go to waste?