Big Bertha is a

euphonious Phonaesthetics (also spelled phonesthetics in North America) is the study of beauty and pleasantness associated with the sounds of certain words or parts of words. The term was first used in this sense, perhaps by during the mid-20th century and ...

term for an unusually large example of a class of object; notable examples include:

Military guns

Big Bertha (howitzer) The 42-centimetre 14 L/12 (short naval cannon), or ''Minenwerfer-Gerät'' (M-Gerät), popularly known by the nickname Big Bertha, was a German siege howitzer built by Krupp AG in Essen, Germany and fielded by the Imperial German Army from 1914 ...

, a heavy mortar-like howitzer built and used by Germany during World War I **

Paris Gun The Paris Gun (german: Paris-Geschütz / Pariser Kanone) was the name given to a type of German long-range siege gun, several of which were used to bombard Paris during World War I. They were in service from March to August 1918. When the guns w ...

, called Big Bertha by the French, and several other big heavy German guns of World War I

Vehicles

MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker In 1919, the Midland Railway built a single 0-10-0 steam locomotive, No 2290 (later LMS (1947) 22290 and BR 58100). It was designed by James Anderson for banking duties on the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire (south of Birmingham), England. I ...

, a large railway banking engine, especially of a 0-10-0 steam locomotive configuration *A special version of the

Vauxhall Victor The Vauxhall Victor is a large family car produced by Vauxhall from 1957 until 1976. The Victor was introduced to replace the outgoing Wyvern model. It was renamed Vauxhall VX Series in 1976 and continued in production until 1978, by which time ...

automobile

Fictional characters

Big Bertha (comics) Big Bertha (born Ashley Crawford, legally changed to Bertha Crawford) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by John Byrne, the character first appeared in ''West Coast Avengers'' vol. 2 #46 (July ...

, a Marvel Comics superhero * Big Bertha, an "abnormal" in the ''

Sanctuary A sanctuary, in its original meaning, is a sacred place, such as a shrine. By the use of such places as a haven, by extension the term has come to be used for any place of safety. This secondary use can be categorized into human sanctuary, a saf ...

'' television series * Big Bertha, a recurring enemy in the Mario franchise - see

Characters in the Mario franchise The ''Mario'' franchise is a video game series by Nintendo. While Nintendo is usually the developer and publisher of games in the franchise, various series are developed by third-party companies, such as Hudson Soft and Intelligent Systems. G ...

Other uses

Big Bertha (lunar sample) Lunar Sample 14321, better known as "Big Bertha", is a lunar sample containing an embedded Earth-origin meteorite collected on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. It was found in the Fra Mauro region of the Moon. Big Bertha is the first discovered mete ...

, the third largest lunar rock collected by the Apollo program during

Apollo 14 Apollo 14 (January 31, 1971February 9, 1971) was the eighth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, the third to land on the Moon, and the first to land in the lunar highlands. It was the last of the " H missions", landings at s ...

Bertha Heyman Bertha Heyman (born ) was a 19th-century American criminal, also known as "Big Bertha" or the "Confidence Queen." She was described by famed New York City detective Thomas F. Byrnes as "one of the smartest confidence trick, confidence women in Am ...

, a.k.a. "Big Bertha", a 19th-century criminal *

Big Bertha (cow) Big Bertha (17 March 1945 – 31 December 1993) was a cow who held two Guinness World Records: she was the oldest cow recorded, dying just three months short of her 49th birthday, and she also held the record for lifetime breeding, having produced ...

, a cow that broke two Guinness World Records, for being both the oldest and having the most offspring *

Big Bertha (golf club) Big Bertha is the name given by Callaway Golf to a number of its lines of golf clubs. The name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha howitzer. The original Big Bertha driver was launched in 1991. At the time, its design was considered h ...

, a line of golf clubs from Callaway Golf *

Big Bertha (drum) Big Bertha is a bass drum used by the The University of Texas Longhorn Band, Longhorn Band of University of Texas at Austin, The University of Texas at Austin. The Big Bertha name was chosen to evoke the famous German Big Bertha (Howitzer), Big ...

, one of the world's largest bass drums *

IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors The IBM T220 and T221 are LCD monitors that were sold between 2001 and 2005, with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels (WQUXGA) on a screen with a diagonal of 22.2 inches (564 mm). This works out to 9,216,000 pixels, with a pixe ...

, nicknamed Big Bertha, LCD monitors with a native resolution of 3840×2400 pixels *

Bertha (tunnel boring machine) Bertha was a tunnel boring machine built specifically for the Washington State Department of Transportation's (WSDOT) Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel project in Seattle, Washington, United States. It was made by Hitachi Zosen Sakai Wor ...

, nicknamed Big Bertha, a tunnel boring machine *

La Grosse Bertha ''La Grosse Bertha'' (''Big Bertha'') was a French weekly satirical magazine created in 1991 in opposition to the Gulf War. Its editor and publisher was Jean-Cyrille Godefroy and its first editor-in-chief was François Forcadell. The title of ...

(French for "Big Bertha"), a French satirical magazine {{disambig