Big-endians, a name given to the Catholics, as Little-endians is the name given to the Protestants, in the imaginary kingdom of Lilliput, of which the former are regarded as heretics by the latter because they break their eggs at the big end.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Bigelow, Erastus Brigham * Biggar