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big⋅gin

1  [big-in]
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–noun Archaic.
1. a close-fitting cap worn esp. by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. a soft cap worn while sleeping; nightcap.
Origin:
1520–30; < MF beguin kind of hood or cap, orig. one worn by a Beguine

big⋅gin

2  [big-in]
–noun
a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.
Origin:
after Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor
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noun
a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin 
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