Obs. exc. dial. Also bigg, bigge. [Deriv. unknown. (Some refer it to BIG a.; some compare Cornish begel, Breton bégél the navel.)]
1. A teat. Now dial.
1573. Tusser, Husb., xxxiii. (1878), 74. Lamb, bulchin, and pig, geld vnder the big.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 558. With bigs or dugs.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-Cr., II. v. 48. If they had suckt in the Whimsie from the Bigg with their Mother’s Milk.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., Bigg, a Pap or Teat in some Country Places.
1875. Lanc. Gloss. (E. D. S.), Big, a teat, where the ‘familiar’ was said to draw blood from the body of a witch.
† 2. A boil. Obs.
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 444. Good for the swelling piles and bigs.
1646. Gaule, Cases Consc., 6. If you will not admit a big, or a boyl.
