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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Big.
 
To look big. To assume a consequential air.   1
   To talk big. To boast or brag.   2
        “The archdeacon waxed wroth, talked big, and looked bigger.”—Trollope: The Warden, chap. 20.
 


 Bif’rost,Big Bird. 

 
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