biggin means A place in England:; A small village and civil parish by Hulland, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2648). Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
name
- A place in England:; A small village and civil parish by Hulland, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2648).
- A place in England:; A village in Hartington Nether Quarter parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1559).
- A place in England:; A hamlet north of Tilbury, Thurrock borough, Essex (OS grid ref TQ6577).
- A place in England:; A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5434).
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- A child's cap; (figuratively) childhood.“[…] 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.”
- An official's hood or coif.
- A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured.“As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying ‘Mr Baptist—tea-pot!’ ‘Mr Baptist—dust-pan!’ ‘Mr Baptist—flour-dredger!’ ‘Mr Baptist—coffee-biggin!’ At the same time exhibiting those articles, and penetrating him with a sense of the appalling diffi”
- A drinking vessel for ale or beer; possibly a tankard.“Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.”