bigger

alternative pronunciation spelling biggah · alternative pronunciation spelling bigguh

1. comparativecomparative form of big: more 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

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   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

present singular third person biggers · participle present biggering · participle past biggered · past biggered · alternative pronunciation spelling biggah · alternative pronunciation spelling bigguh

1. nonstandardrareTo 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

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   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

   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

plural Biggers

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. countableuncountableA township in Jennings County, Indiana, United States, named after Samuel Bigger.