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Biggin (Winchester, &c.), a coffee-pot consisting of two parts—a strainer, and a coffee-pot.

Biggity (American), large, extra-vagant, grand, presumptuously.

Big guns (common), men of importance, great people.

Big head (American), a term of abuse, implying that a man is conceited, "bumptious;" to get the big head, to be in a state verging on intoxication, what the French call "être allumé."

It signifies, further, the feeling of a swelled head, accompanied by headache experienced in the morning after a debauch, when one has "mal aux cheveux," as the French express it.

Big house (costermongers), the workhouse.

Big Injun (American), a term applied at first by the red Indians to indicate some great chief.

Big mouth (American), a very common expression applied to any man who talks too much, who is windy, "gassy," and given to bosh. During his trial for murder the wretched Guiteau often interrupted the judge by crying out "Shut up, big mouth." H