Bigging

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Praising, promoting or publicly hyping someone or something, as in informal British slang ; constructing or erecting a building or structure, as in Scots and northern dialect usage
2. Boosting the reputation of a person or thing with enthusiastic praise ; putting up or assembling a structure, a usage found in Scottish and regional English
3. Giving someone or something enthusiastic public praise in casual speech ; the act of raising or building something, a sense mainly preserved in Scots dialect

Etymology: "Bigging" is simply "big" with the suffix "-ing" attached. The verb "to big" here means to promote, boost, or hype someone up, and it draws on the adjective's older sense of making something larger or more impressive in others' eyes. Its meaning is much like "to big up," the phrase common in British and Caribbean English. The construction is transparent: "big" supplies the core idea of making something seem greater, and "-ing" turns it into a verb form describing the act. Because the root is one of the most basic English adjectives, the word needed no special coinage to exist and looks like an ordinary piece of everyday vocabulary.

Synonyms: building, constructing

Antonyms: demolishing