| 词汇 | big |
| 词源 | big. No one really knows the origin of this important mono- syllabic word. Big has been traced to the Middle English bigge, meaning the same, but no further than that. It may come from the Scandinavian bugge, “an important man,” but it could also derive from the Latin bucca, in the sense of “inflated cheek,” among other possibilities. |
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