biggers

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noun

Those bigger than oneself.

“Forest and Stream (1882), Outing, Volumes 1-2, page 62: “Do not his biggers and betters brag of scores which would not have been made if their guides and oarsmen had not fished?””

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Meanings

biggers1

nounbiggers pl (plural only)
  1. pluralplural onlyThose bigger than oneself.

    Forest and Stream (1882), Outing, Volumes 1-2, page 62: “Do not his biggers and betters brag of scores which would not have been made if their guides and oarsmen had not fished?”

    2 more examples

    For whether he clung to the walls, or made stepping-stones of his brothers and sisters (as do many of his betters, or at least his biggers), who can tell?

    1893, Olive Thorne Miller, Little Brothers of the Air

    Francis William Rolt-Wheeler (1919), The boy with the U.S. trappers, page 259 of 388: “No cattle-killing grizzly this, but a rumbling big black bear, who perhaps, but not surely, might once or twice, in his life have dined on lamb or veal, yet who had stumbled into the fate made for his biggers if not his betters.”

verb
  1. indicativepresentsingularthird personthird-person singular simple present indicative of bigger

Biggers2

proper noun
proper noun
  1. pluralplural of Bigger
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Chicago

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