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bigger en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbɪɡəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈbɪɡɚ] ~ [ˈbɪɡɹ̩] (General-American)
  • /ˈbɪɡɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈbɪɡəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (comparative, form-of) comparative form of big: more big
    form of big
    • That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […] 1812, A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146
    • 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. 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
biggah alternative, pronunciation-spelling lexicographic
bigguh alternative, pronunciation-spelling lexicographic

Deriveds

biggerness · biggerer

bigger en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • [ˈbɪɡəː] (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • [ˈbɪɡɚ] ~ [ˈbɪɡɹ̩] (General-American)
  • /ˈbɪɡɚ/ (General-American)
  • /ˈbɪɡəː/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
    • She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir. 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume 1, published 2009, page 322:
    • The money they splurged to the board's delight Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight 2002 August 5, Mark Gibbs, “IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons”, in Network World, page 69:
    • But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads. 1971, Dr Seuss, The Lorax, page 39:

Forms

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biggah alternative, pronunciation-spelling lexicographic
biggering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
biggered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
biggered Tense=Past lexicographic
bigguh alternative, pronunciation-spelling lexicographic
biggers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Relateds

biggers