Bingley, you're right - for your bit o' the world! Canajuns seem to use "big" rather than "great" for a size adjective.

I just remember my British-born-and-raised father saying things like, "This ruddy great truck passed me on the highway," etc....

I heard someone with a British accent talking about how the 12th century English kings used to go "hawking" and I now quite unnerstan' why Canajuns corrupted it to "horking"...!