Meaning of biggin | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A place in England:
2. A small village and civil parish by Hulland, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK2648).
3. A child's cap; (figuratively) childhood.
   archaic
4. A coffee pot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured.
5. A drinking vessel for ale or beer; possibly a tankard.
6. A village in Hartington Nether Quarter parish, Derbyshire Dales district, Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1559).
7. An official's hood or coif.
   historical
8. A hamlet north of Tilbury, Thurrock borough, Essex (OS grid ref TQ6577).
9. A village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, previously in Selby district (OS grid ref SE5434).

Examples

“[…] 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 old woman's biggin for a nightcap.”

“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 difficulties of the Anglo-Saxon tongue.”

“‘That silver biggin holds coffee, and there are cups on the lower tier of the cart.’”

“Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.”

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