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Biggin

Definition: Biggin

Biggin

Noun

1. A child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Crosswords: Biggin

Non-English Usage: "Biggin" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (pet, spoiled child).

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Commercial Usage: Biggin

DomainTitle

Books

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Biggin

"Biggin" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Biggin" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (proper)95.74%4550,900
Noun (singular)4.26%2245,945
                    Total100.00%47N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Biggin

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "biggin": biggin-based.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Biggin

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

biggin hill

21

air biggin hill show

13

biggin hill kingdom united

10

biggin

9

air biggin fair hill

6

biggin scott

6

biggin hill hotel

4

biggin hill hotelsq

4

2003 air biggin hill show

3

airport biggin hill

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Biggin

Language Translations for "biggin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

Kapelë Për Fëmijë. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

Капишон. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

Hálósapka (nightcap, slumber cap). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

igginbay

   

Portuguese

  

Touca De Dormir (night coach). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

Капюшон. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

vrsta kape za spavanje. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

Kapuschong (cowl, hood). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

Капюшон (Cape), "итяча Шапочка, Будинок. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Biggin

Derivations

Words beginning with "biggin": bigging, biggings, biggins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Biggin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: gibing.

Words within the letters "b-g-g-i-i-n"

-3 letters: big, bin, gib, gig, gin, nib.

-4 letters: bi, in.

 Words containing the letters "b-g-g-i-i-n"
 

+1 letter: bigging, biggins, bilging, binging, gibbing.

 

+2 letters: biggings, bighting, bingeing, bridging, bringing, gibingly, obliging.

 

+3 letters: abridging, beginning, begirding, begriming, beguiling, besieging, bewigging, blighting, boogieing, bridgings, brigading, gibbering, gibbeting, gimbaling.

 

+4 letters: badinaging, bargaining, bedighting, befringing, beginnings, begirdling, begrimming, bemingling, gibbetting, gimballing, negligible, negligibly, obligating, obligingly, upbringing.

 

+5 letters: arbitraging, befingering, beguilingly, beknighting, brightening, disobliging, globalising, globalizing, highballing, neighboring, rebeginning, ringbarking, upbringings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Biggin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 67 67 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    --.    --.    ..    -.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01100111 01100111 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#103 &#103 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 0067 0067 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

367573737580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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