Bigge vs Biggen - What's the difference?
bigge | biggen |
* {{quote-book, year=1598, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I., chapter=, edition=
, passage=Sebastian Cabot himselfe named those lands Baccalaos, because that in the Seas thereabout hee found so great multitudes of certaine bigge fishes much like vnto Tunies, (which the inhabitants called Baccalaos) that they sometimes stayed his shippes. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The King of the Paschattowayes had drawen together 1500 bowe-men, which wee ourselves saw, the woods were fired in manner of beacons the night after; and for that our vessel was the greatest that euer those Indians saw, the scowtes reported wee came in a Canoe, as bigge as an Island, and had as many men as there bee trees in the woods. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Wherefore takinge vp a bigge stone, he began againe with greater blowes to beate at the doore.}}
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(rare, obsolete) To make bigger
* {{quote-book, 1837, title=Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, author=Ebenezer Elliott, chapter=Rhymed Rambles, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=zkIFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA89, page=89
, passage=Our spirits, biggened by their griefs and fears, Sadden and dwindle, with their backward view, All they behold.}}
* {{quote-book, 1898, Margaret Georgina Todd, Mona Maclean, Medical Student, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=m4gfAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA359, page=359
, passage=What has biggened it?}}
* {{quote-journal, 1914, , , The Cornhill Magazine, volume=104, page=414
, passage=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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As an adjective bigge
is .As a verb biggen is
(rare|obsolete) to make bigger or biggen can be .bigge
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Etymology 1
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