big vs scant

big

adj
  • Mature, conscientious, principled; generous. 

  • Important or significant. 

  • Popular. 

  • Large with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce. 

  • Enthusiastic (about). 

  • Fat. 

  • Adult; (of a child) older. 

  • Populous. 

  • Used as an intensifier, especially of negative-valence nouns 

  • Of great size, large. 

  • Operating on a large scale, especially if therefore having undue or sinister influence. 

  • Well-endowed, possessing large breasts in the case of a woman or a large penis in the case of a man. 

  • Old, mature. Used to imply that somebody is too old for something, or acting immaturely. 

noun
  • The participant in ageplay who acts out the older role. 

  • An important or powerful person; a celebrity; a big name. 

  • A initiated member of a sorority who acts as a mentor to a new member (the little). 

  • One or more kinds of barley, especially six-rowed barley. 

  • The big leagues, big time. 

adv
  • In a large amount or to a large extent. 

  • On a large scale, expansively. 

  • You've got to think big to succeed at Amalgamated Plumbing. 

  • In a boasting manner. 

  • Hard. 

  • In a loud manner. 

scant

adj
  • Sparing; parsimonious; chary. 

  • Not full, large, or plentiful; scarcely sufficient; scanty; meager. 

verb
  • To fail, or become less; to scantle. 

  • To limit in amount or share; to stint. 

det
  • Very little, very few. 

noun
  • A sheet of stone. 

  • Scarcity; lack. 

  • A small piece or quantity. 

  • A slightly thinner measurement of a standard wood size. 

  • A block of stone sawn on two sides down to the bed level. 

How often have the words big and scant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )