Definition of "biggin" [big•gin]

• A child's cap; (figuratively) childhood. (noun)
• An official's hood or coif. (noun)
• Coffee pot that has separate areas for heating the coffee and water. (noun)
• A building; a bigging. (noun)

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• "Mr. Carlyle said it was his habit to drink five cups of tea. He ran off into table-talk about tea and coffee, told us that he had found in Lord Russell's 'Memoirs of Moore,' which he called a rubbishy book, the origin of the word biggin; it comes from one Biggin, a tinner, who first made the vessel and was knighted afterwards."
• "In summer and winter the baby's head was always closely covered with a cap, or "biggin" often warmly wadded, which was more comforting in winter than comfortable in summer."
• "When was the last time Diddy really was 'biggin' up his brother ', not biggin' up his bank? ""