adv. (American).—Consequential; giving oneself airs: negroism.
c. 1884. S. L. CLEMENS (‘Mark Twain’), Life on the Mississippi, 511. These railroads have made havoc with the steamboat commerce. The clerk of our boat was a steamboat clerk before these roads were built. In that day the influx of population was so great, and the freight business so heavy, that the boats were not able to keep up with the demands made upon their carrying capacity; consequently the Captain was very independent and airy—pretty BIGGITY as Uncle Remus would say.
