How To Use Biggin In A Sentence
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Is he bigging up his own prospects?
Times, Sunday Times
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In the meantime bigging up the sisterhood.
The Sun
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“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.”
Ivanhoe
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My biggin 'stands sweet on this south slopin' hill,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
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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.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England

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The long words are delivered without the slightest bungling; and 'bigging' finished to its last _g_.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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We're all tweeting about each other and bigging up each other.
The Sun
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We scrambled in squadrons of 12 aircraft from Biggin Hill and climbed like crazy to get over the Germans so we could dive on them.
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Hanged or drowned, alive or dead," said Edie, sticking to his guns, "I mind the biggin 'o't!
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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Top marks for candour, zero for bigging up their product.
Times, Sunday Times
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Darren Dyer and Carl Biggins gave Slingsby a comfortable lead at the break although Phil Marwood pulled a goal back to set a few nerves jangling in the second half.
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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.'
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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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.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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And my grandmother had tales o 'auld Ettericks who rade wi' Douglas and the Bruce and the ancient Kings o 'Scots; and she used to tell o' others in her mother's time, terrible shockheaded men hunting the deer and rinnin 'on the high moors, and bidin' in the broken stane biggings on the hill-taps.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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Indeed, bigging it up known technically as self-enhancement may be necessary there.
Family under the microscope
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Mr Reuben and myself have been "bigging" this up at this year with a number of our clients and potential clients and with how this can work for businesses's, groups and individuals.
Blogs.conchango.com
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Its father handed him to Mr King, then a 15-year-old bread delivery boy, after the doodlebug crashed into land behind Old Tye Avenue, Biggin Hill.
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My old dad was a sergeant in the RAF posted not too far from here, up at Biggins Wood.
CORMORANT
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Oh, and last time I looked, the Sun never ran editorials bigging up facists and Hitler.
Think Progress » Former Bush officials rip Tea Parties: They’re ‘outrageous,’ based on ‘fear and hatred,’ bad for GOP.
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Perhaps there's no need for you to keep bigging it up then.
Times, Sunday Times
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To put it crudely, we're bigging up the casualties and inventing a single foe.
Times, Sunday Times
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'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.
Border Ghost Stories
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Plenty of voters share this view and they might find it strange for the government to be trashing Brown's record on the one hand and bigging him up for the IMF job on the other.
Gordon Brown and the IMF deserve better than this shabby treatment
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When was the last time Diddy really was 'biggin' up his brother ', not biggin' up his bank?
All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News
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Another UK-based aircraft landed at 12.24 am, this time a Cessna twin-engined aircraft that visits regularly from London Biggin Hill.
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With the food ordered, the dogged self-promoter is straight into bigging up the firm.
Times, Sunday Times
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That didn't feel like a bigging-up of any movement, to be honest.
Times, Sunday Times
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He kept repeating the phrase 'bigging up'.
Times, Sunday Times
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In celebrating Ada Lovelace Day (March 24), bigging up women in tech, I look back at those I have met since I ‘went online’ as a journalist in 2000.
March « 2009 « Subs’ Standards
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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.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
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The long words are delivered without the slightest bungling; and "bigging" finished to its last _g_.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature
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How the muse happened to visit him in this clay biggin, take a fancy to a clouterly peasant, and teach him strains of consummate beauty and elegance, must ever be a matter of wonder to all those, and they are not few, who hold that noble sentiments and heroic deeds are the exclusive portion of the gently nursed and the far descended.
The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham
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Mr King, who was a bread delivery boy, was handed the child after its father collapsed in front of him in Old Tye Avenue, Biggin Hill.
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There are posters all over the place bigging it up, but it is so nondescript from the outside that it's easy to mistake for a regular hedge.
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Baron von Richtofen, Biggin Hill, 26/07/2011 20:22 Mugwump, Boris the Bafoon would look great in a gymslip!
Evening Standard - Home
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Robert J. Biggins, a former president of the National Funeral Directors Association, said J.ckson's body is likely in his casket, which he identified as a custom-made, top-of-the-line coffin made by the Indiana-based Batesville Casket Company that is called a "Promethean.
Local News from The Lakeland Ledger
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Lowland wars, more than they teach Master of Art in the old biggin 'in the Hie Street of Glascow.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn