Noun: big if
| Singular | big if |
| Plural | big ifs |
Sample Sentences
-
"If I were only old enough," said Kate, "and knew enough to teach a day-school, I would begin at once and save half of my money …."
-
"Oh!" Edward replied, "there's a big if in the way." [1868 Montgomery Schuyler, The Pioneer Church: Or, The Story of a New Parish in the West (Boston: Riverside Press, 1868), p. 2]
-
2004, Dale Brown, Dreamland: Strike Zone, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 217,
-
"If they believe us," said the admiral, "and that's a big if, then we're in a race with them to find this thing. Because if they grab it—"
Nouns inflected like big if
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology