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Pronunciation
Adjective
bigger
- comparative form of big: more big
- 1812, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
- That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party,
1913, Joseph C Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D Appleton and Company, →OCLC:When you're well enough off so's you don't have to fret about anything but your heft or your diseases you begin to get queer, I suppose. And the queerer the cure for those ailings the bigger the attraction. A place like the Right Livers' Rest was bound to draw freaks, same as molasses draws flies.
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Verb
bigger (third-person singular simple present biggers, present participle biggering, simple past and past participle biggered)
- (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume 1, published 2009, page 322:She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir.
1971, Dr Seuss, The Lorax, page 39:But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
2002 August 5, Mark Gibbs, “IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons”, in Network World, page 69:The money they splurged to the board's delight
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight
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