Friday, February 15, 2008

embiggen

To make bigger, to make larger, to make size increase.


Definition courtesy of Urban Dictionary. Just spotted in use on Boing Boing.

4 comments:

  1. I think this was first coined by The Simpsons. "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." --town founder Jebediah Springfield

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  2. Well, sure. It's a perfectly cromulent word.

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  4. Am I the only one reminded of Big 'Uns, the pornographic magazine preferred by Al Bundy of Married with Children? A sort of Homer/Al hybrid might say, "Mmmm, big 'uns..."

    Always glad to help raise the level of sophistication...

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