Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.
[Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; as, a big heart; a big voice; big looks; to look big. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.
God hath not in heaven a bigger argument.
I talked big to them at first.
Phrases & Compounds
To talk big
to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.
Big
n.
Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. (Bot.)
“Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg.”