What does "That's a lotta big words" mean?
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big words= hard/difficult words
That's a lot of difficult words
Whoever is talking, I guess it's a joke at their own expense: someone has said something difficult and they find it hard to understand.
A lot of the time, the words "lot of" are slurred together and become "lotta" (/lɔːtʌ/) in speech.
So, in dialogue, "lot of" can be written as "lotta".
Similarly
"going to" -> "gonna"
"want to" -> "wanna,"
"could have" -> "coulda"
"got to" -> "gotta" (actually also "have to" -> "got to" -> "gotta",
as in "I have to go to the store" -> "I gotta go to the store")
Changing "lot of" to "lotta" makes it more clearly a joke about oneself, because the person who's talking is deliberately acting stupid (slurring their words).