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bigger | bogger |

As an adjective bigger

is (big).

As a verb bigger

is (nonstandard|rare) to make or become bigger.

As a noun bogger is

someone associated with or who works in a bog or bogger can be used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''[http://booksgooglecom/books?id=5qiv39cbumyc&pg=pa62&dq=bogger&lr= “bogger”], entry in 1990 , leslie dunkling, ''a dictionary of epithets and terms of address .

bigger

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (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,
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=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.}}

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, rare) To make or become bigger.
  • * {{quote-book, 1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume=1, page=322, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=mny99S_fR4AC&pg=PA322, edition=2009 ed.
    • , passage=She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered , sir. }}
  • * {{quote-book, 1971, citation
    • , passage=But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.
    I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
  • * {{quote-news, 2002, August 5, Mark Gibbs, IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons, Network World, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=4hgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT69, page=69
    • , passage=The money they splurged to the board's delight
    Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}

    See also

    * biggers

    bogger

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone associated with or who works in a bog.
  • * 2000 Lorraine Heath. Never Love a Cowboy , page 51,
    • “I was a bogger afore the war—”
    “A bogger ?”
    “Yep. I was the one sent to get the cattle out of the muddy bogs and thickets.”
  • (Australia, slang) A man who catches nippers (snapping prawns). 1966 , Sidney John Baker, The Australian language , page 223.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from a city.
  • (Ireland, derogatory) Someone not from Dublin (from outside the ).
  • (Newfoundland, Labrador) A dare, a task that children challenge each other to complete. “bogger”], entry in 2004 [1990, George Morley Story, W. J. Kirwin, John David Allison Widdowson, Dictionary of Newfoundland English .
  • (Australia, Western Australia, slang) Someone who works to shovel ore or waste rock underground. “bogger”, entry in 1989 , Joan Hughes, Australian words and their origins .
  • * 1962 , Bill Wannan, Modern Australian humour , page 176,
    • Polish Joe was a bogger , a man who shifted unbelievable quantities of dirt away from the face from which it had been blown, and into trucks for dumping in the underground bins each day.
  • (Australia, slang) A toilet.
  • (Northern England, derogatory, slang) Someone of the goth, skate, punk, or emo subculture.
    • Related terms
    * bogtrotter (Ireland) “Bog-Trotter”, entry in 1984 , Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, A dictionary of slang and unconventional English , 8th edition — Any Irishman whatsoever. * bog warrior (Ireland) * bogman (Ireland) * nipper-bogger (Australia)

    Etymology 2

    From bugger.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Used particularly as an epithet or term of camaraderie or endearment''. “Bogger”, entry in 1990 , Leslie Dunkling, ''A dictionary of epithets and terms of address .
  • * 1986 , Ian Breakwell. Ian Breakwell's diary, 1964-1985 ,
    • "You bloody bogger ...!
  • * 1998 , Alan Sillitoe, The Broken Chariot ,
    • "You're a funny bogger', though. I never could mek yo' out. Ye're just like one of the lads, but sometimes there's a posh ' bogger trying to scramble out."
  • * 1992 , Alan Sillitoe, Saturday night and Sunday morning ,
    • "The dirty bogger ! He's got a fancy woman! Nine times a week!"

    References

    * British: ** 2005 , Simon Elmes, Talking for Britain: a journey through the nation's dialects . * Ireland: ** 2006 , Eric Partridge, The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: A-I . ** 1983 , Irving L. Allen, The language of ethnic conflict: social organization and lexical culture .