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Definition of: Big-endian
(big·en′dē·ən) noun
A partisan in small matters of dispute: from Swift's Gulliver's Travels, in which one religious party (the Big-endians) of Lilliput opposed the other (the Little-endians) by maintaining that boiled eggs should be broken at the big end.
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