bigger

See also: Bigger

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪɡə/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbɪɡɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(ɹ)

Adjective

bigger

1. 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[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] 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.

Derived terms

• biggerer
• biggerness

 

Verb

bigger (third-person singular simple present biggers, present participle biggering, simple past and past participle biggered)

1. (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^[1], 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

See also

• biggers

Anagrams

• brigge