biggen
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biggen (third-person singular simple present biggens, present participle biggening, simple past and past participle biggened)
- (rare, obsolete) To make bigger
- 1837, Ebenezer Elliott, “Rhymed Rambles”, in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, page 89:
- Our spirits, biggened by their griefs and fears, Sadden and dwindle, with their backward view, All they behold.
- 1898, Margaret Georgina Todd, Mona Maclean, Medical Student, page 359:
- What has biggened it?
- 1914, The Cornhill Magazine[1], volume 104, page 414:
- We both belong to a big State, and it's growing bigger every day. I like to think that in my small way I'm helping to biggen it.
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biggen
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biggen
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Borrowed from Old Norse byggja.
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biggen
- build
- a. 1450, John Lydgate:
- Thy place is bygged above the sterres clere
- Your house is built above the shining stars.
- a. 1450, John Lydgate:
- dwell
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- “biggen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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biggen
- Alternative form of bien
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bīggen
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biggen
- to be pregnant