D. Dalby ‘African Element in American English’ in Kochman Rappin’ and Stylin’ Out 178: Big eye—‘greedy.’ [Footnote:] Dr J.L. Dillard has informed me that this term was rationalized by white Texans as ‘big I’ (in the phrase ‘big I, little you’).at big I, little you (n.) under big, adj.