Mr. Carlyle said it was his habit to drink five cups of tea. He ran off into table-talk about tea and coffee, told us that he had found in Lord Russell's 'Memoirs of Moore,' which he called a rubbishy book, the origin of the word biggin; it comes from one Biggin, a tinner, who first made the vessel and was knighted afterwards. ❋ Unknown (1911)
In summer and winter the baby's head was always closely covered with a cap, or "biggin" often warmly wadded, which was more comforting in winter than comfortable in summer. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
When was the last time Diddy really was 'biggin' up his brother ', not biggin' up his bank? " ❋ Unknown (2010)
“Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba — “and for hanging up by the feet, my brain has been topsy-turvy, they say, ever since the biggin was bound first round my head; so turning me upside down may peradventure restore it again.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
Many a time I have put on my spectacles to look at the lassie in church, because she has gentle blue een, wi 'long lashes; and, when she sits in shadow, and is very still and very pale, and is, happen, about to fall asleep wi' the length of the sermon and the heat of the biggin '- she is as like one of Canova's marbles as aught else.' ❋ Unknown (2004)
The DRIP POT, or _coffee biggin_, as it is sometimes called, one type of which is shown in Fig. 4, is sometimes preferred for the making of coffee. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
My biggin 'stands sweet on this south slopin' hill, ❋ Various (N/A)
"Hanged or drowned, alive or dead," said Edie, sticking to his guns, "I mind the biggin 'o't!" ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
"About this bit bower, Monkbarns," said the undaunted Edie, "I mind the biggin '(building) o' it!" ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
There are mair folks than him biggin 'castles in the air. ❋ Various (N/A)
Lowland wars, more than they teach Master of Art in the old biggin 'in the Hie Street of Glascow. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
Ha! the young dreamer 's biggin 'castles in the air! ❋ Various (N/A)
A coffee pot, a coffee percolator, and a drip pot, or coffee biggin, are the utensils most frequently used for the preparation of this beverage. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
'Ye can almost see my bit biggin', 'said Si, as he halted and pointed eastward of Larriston Fell to a patch of black peat and heather high on the rolling moorland. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
The Shepherd assented, for he had seen the head of Geordy alike in the hut and the hall; beaming the same by the mirrored fire-light of the manorial villa, and "by the peat-lowe frae the ingle o 'the auld clay biggin." ❋ Various (N/A)
BABY CAKE (_Twelfth cake_), dressed like a boy, in a fine long coat, biggin bib, muckender, and a little dagger; his usher bearing a great cake, with a bean and a pease. ❋ John Ashton (N/A)
The "auld clay biggin" in which Robert Burns was born on the 25th of January 1759, has been completely repaired and is now the property of the Ayr Burns's Monument trustees. ❋ Various (N/A)
This was poetry indeed; like the Scotchman and his house, we kent it by the biggin o't. ❋ Christopher Morley (1923)
Coffee-making devices of this period in England, in addition to the Rumford type of percolator and the popular coffee biggin, included Evans' machine provided with a tin air-float to which was attached a filter bag containing the coffee; Jones' apparatus, a pumping percolator; Parker's steam-fountain coffee maker, which forced the hot water upward through the ground coffee; Platow's patent filter, previously mentioned, a single vacuum glass percolator in combination with an urn; Brain's vacuum or pneumatic filter employing a 'muslin, linen or shamoy leather filter' and an exhausting pump, designed for kitchen use; and Palmer's and Beart's pneumatic filtering machines of similar construction. ❋ Unknown (1909)
This work recommended as among the latest and best devices for coffee making, all those manufactured or sold in this country by Adams & Son; the English coffee biggin; General Hutchinson's coffee pot and urn, combining De Belloy's and Rumford's ideas; Le Brun's Cafetiére for making coffee by distillation and by steam pressure, passing it directly into the cup; a Vienna coffee-making machine, and a Russian coffee reversible pot called the Potsdam. ❋ Unknown (1909)
[The fish] i [caught] is a biggin! ❋ Bud_true69 (2003)
that [truck] is a biggin! ❋ Mrmuffin123451 (2010)
did you see that biggin [just come] [threw] here?
:[FOG HORN]: ❋ Fred Rek (2007)
[Rammit] [Rardson], [biggin] has tracked down the location of the cupcakes and has unearthed them from the cabinet ❋ Speedybugle (2020)
" That [chicks] [ROCKS] the biggins "
" I love your [sisters] biggins " ❋ DWreck (2007)
"[Dude], [look at that] [porker], she's a biggin'!" ❋ Paiger (2008)
We called the man [biggins] because he [weighed] 500 [lbs]. ❋ Dolla (2003)
[Nice] [stretch] [march], biggins. ❋ Mc Ca$hmir (2003)
Johnny gave [Shannon] the [biggins] in her [throat]. ❋ Suckadjoecooljoe (2010)
"I'm [Roy] Biggins. I'm an [owner operator], and flight desk clerk in [Nantucket], an island [off the coast] of Masachuessets.
I have unusual affection towards my severely obese Mother, and am generally disliked in my airport as a dishonest man who lacks class."
"Did you see that guy, he TOTALLY [roy] bigginsed all OVER the place."
"Hey, i just found 3 Roy Bigginses in the garbage can, i'm going to stick them to my car window."
"That thing was so loud my ears did a complete Roy Biggins!"
"I can't see out of the window, I'm Roy Bigginsing over here."
"Where did you put that thing we talked about? Roy Biggins wants it."
"I hurt myself earlier because my friend dropped a piece of his Roy Biggins on me."
"Turn this off, i feel like my Roy Biggins is going to explode."
"Roy Biggins is outside waiting for you."
"I can't drive right now, my Roy Biggins won't [permit] it."
"There are far too many Roy Bigginses in this region."
"[Wait a second], Jane, Roy Biggins isnt here yet.
Jane: Yes he is, Don't you see him?
Roy Biggins: I am, indeed, right here."
"I can't find my money, i think i just pulled [a Roy] Biggins."
"Where's the Bus Stop? Roy Biggins is waiting for me."
"If I dont get there in time, hell make a Roy Biggins out of me."
"It's really hot out here, i feel like i should put my Roy Biggins on."
"Did you see that Roy Biggins go down the drain? Gross." ❋ Scott S. (2004)
