The name can be spelled Byggin, Bigging or Begging.

Bigging, building.

Bigging, it was.

The name "Newbigging" originally referred to a "new bigging" or "new cottar town" (hamlet).

Here's a tricksy bigging."

It'll be the Castle then, I dare say, for a week or two; and then a sweet short trial and a swing in New Bigging Street.

The area is popular with climbers because of Yesnaby Castle, a two-legged sea stack just south of the Brough of Bigging.

This is an example of the Slavic antithesis from the bigging of the Serbian epic poem "Mali Radojica":