unbig
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unbig (comparative more unbig, superlative most unbig)
- (rare) Not big; small.
- 1958, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, 95 Poems, 11th printing, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, poem 63:
- precisely as unbig a why as i’m (almost too small for death’s because to find) may,given perfect mercy,live a dream larger than alive any star goes round
- 1969 spring, Tabb Thornton Farinholt, “Golden Mean Mammas”, in Alumnae Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Sweet Briar College, page 13, column 1:
- Unless I had constant surveillance, with a changing of the guard, I could never succeed in barring our children from the Living Room. I sometimes think it would be nice, but we all live in the Living Room,—an unbig, scrappy family.
- 1991, Christopher Mann, “A Jingle from Ficdep”, in Fourth Dimension: The Literary Journal of Selwyn House School, volume XVIII, page 74:
- The pluscold time is gone / The around the clock is at the ante meridian; / Cockcrow’s at ten minus three; / The nacreous hills have stagnant water converged on them / The thrush on the pennon; / An unbig crustacean insect on a sharp site of a tree; / Big Brother is watching you from above, amen / Everything’s correct in OCEANIA!