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unbig en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + big.

Meanings

1. (rare) Not big; small.
   • precisely as unbig a why as i’m (almost too small for death’s because to find) may,given perfect mercy,live a dream larger than alive any star goes round 1958, E[dward] E[stlin] Cummings, 95 Poems, 11th printing, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., →ISBN, poem 63:
   • The pluscold time is gone / The around the clock is at the ante meridian; / Cockcrow’s at ten minus three; / The nacreous hills have stagnant water converged on them / The thrush on the pennon; / An unbig crustacean insect on a sharp site of a tree; / Big Brother is watching you from above, amen / Everything’s correct in OCEANIA! 1991, Christopher Mann, “A Jingle from Ficdep”, in Fourth Dimension: The Literary Journal of Selwyn House School, volume XVIII, page 74:
   • Unless I had constant surveillance, with a changing of the guard, I could never succeed in barring our children from the Living Room. I sometimes think it would be nice, but we all live in the Living Room,—an unbig, scrappy family. 1969 spring, Tabb Thornton Farinholt, “Golden Mean Mammas”, in Alumnae Magazine, volume 39, number 3, Sweet Briar College, page 13, column 1:

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