bigsome

English

Etymology

From big +‎ -some.

Adjective

bigsome (comparative more bigsome, superlative most bigsome)

1. Characterised or marked by bigness; large
   • 1920, Colour - Volume 13:

     “Mother,” I said at last, my heart pounding in too bigsome a fashion for that tiny porch, “maybe our own garden shall take no hurt from a dark flower . .” “Indeed Jan,” she said very fondly, “and I was never the one to reckon it would.”

   • 1906, Metropolitan Magazine, volume 24:

     "I don't suppose yer ever felt like sittin' down in the middle of a bigsome prairie an' weepin' yer heart out? Well, I did, I was that dissap'inted. [...]"

   • 2013, Robert Antoni, As Flies to Whatless Boys:

     At each of these discourses he made a deliberate show of dedicating more attention to his pair of half-eaten mutton legs—reclining on a chaise lounge toted by the stewards from deck to parlour to saloon—large white napkin spread diamond-wise over he [sic] bigsome belly.