bigly
/ˈbɪɡ.li/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.37 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "He looked at Mrs. Harling, who loomed bigly in the dull light."
- "Big Bessie's feet hurt like nobody's business, / but she stands—bigly—under the unruly scrutiny, stands in the wild weed."
- "I have only one real (and ridiculous) reason—the reflection of my awestruck 5 year old face in a head mirror. […] I gripped my mother's hand while she spoke to a big voice from a big face from a big man in a big white coat. He suddenly stopped and turned his big eyes on me. I dug my nails into my mother's hand. He reached out his big hand over the menacing silver array on his desk. I closed my eyes tightly. He said something … bigly."
- "I will bigly, hugely admit that I was wrong"
- "In the light and air the shadows of the clouds move bigly over the baby's arms."
- "By the way, isn't my handwriting more appropriate now? You complained that I was writing too bigly for airletters and sort of cheating you of information."
Etymology
From Middle English bygly, byggly, biggely. By surface analysis, big (“of great size, large (adjective); to a large extent, on a large scale; hard (adverb)”) + -ly.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈbɪɡ.li/
- British English: /ˈbɪɡ.li/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more bigly (comparative)
most bigly (superlative)
biglie (alternative, obsolete)
bygly (alternative, obsolete)