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big-feeling adjective inordinately proud CANADA- When a student from Campbellton said a student from Yarmouth was “too big-feeling for me,” I could taste the contempt in his voice. [It is] a pungent expression of the scorn Maritimers feel for all those who dare to put on airs. — Harry Bruce, Down Home, p. 102, 1988
- I can’t get involved; you’re so big-feeling. — Lewis Poteet, The South Shore Phrase Book, p. 20, 1999
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