bigging

English

Etymology

From big +‎ -ing.

Verb

bigging

1. present participle and gerund of big

Noun

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”)