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Young folks and chillun being raised up real biggity like dey is now, dey can't serve nothing, kaise if you can't serve your earthly father, how is you gwine to serve your Heavenly

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

When folks take up dis idee, dey gits biggity, an 'dey ain't no stayin' in de same country wid um.

Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

Walter Thomas talk dat biggity talk to me, not to my wife.

De Turkey and De Law A Comedy in Three Acts Zora Neale Hurston

He was a biggity acting and braggy talking old man.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 Work Projects Administration

He wuz so sho 'he wuz gwine ter git' er in de spring, dat he didn ''pear ter' low he had ter do any co'tin ', en w'en he'd run 'cross Chloe 'bout de house, he'd swell roun' 'er in a biggity way en say:

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

Such at any rate was the fact; the roach and the cat, by their humble station in life, and the lowliness of their associates, proved an admirable vantage for merciless joshing of everything biggity.

Christopher Morley writes about Don Marquis 1937

He wuz so sho 'he wuz gwine ter git' er in de spring, dat he didn ''pear ter' low he had ter do any co'tin ', en w'en he'd run 'cross Chloe 'bout de house, he'd swell roun' 'er in a biggity way en say:

Hot-Foot Hannibal 1899

Mertildy says hit all comes o 'you bein' so biggity, an 'hit's true.

The Durket Sperret, 1898

Dey stan '' roun 'en talk biggity, dey did, twel bimeby Brer Rabbit, he up'n say, sezee:

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881

Bimeby he see a great big stalk er sugar-cane stan'in 'up in de cornder, en he cle'r up his th'oat en talk biggity:

Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881