Bigger

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /ˈbɪɡɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɪɡə(r)

Adjective

1. bigger

   (comparative of 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. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 5, 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.

Full definition of bigger

Verb

1. (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
• She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir.
• But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
  I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
• The money they splurged to the board's delight
  Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight