Bigger vs Langer - What's the difference?
bigger | langer |
(big)
* 1812 , A Collection of Scarce and Valuable Tracts (Walter Scott, John Somers), page 146:
* , chapter=5
, title= (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,
, 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}} (slang, Ireland, pejorative) Fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).
* 1996 , Enda Walsh, Disco Pigs , ISBN 1854593986, p. 8:
* 2006 , September 3, Brendan O'Connor
* 2006 November 22,
(slang, Ireland, vulgar) Penis.
* , "Taking on PJ" in Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger Vs. the Ugly American , ed. Ken Bruen, p.23, ISBN 1888451920:
* , All of These People: A Memoir , p.88, ISBN 0007176929:
As an adjective bigger
is comparative of big.As a verb bigger
is to make or become bigger.As a noun langer is
fool; idiot; annoying or contemptible person (usually male).As a proper noun Langer is
{{surname|from=German}.bigger
English
Adjective
(head)- That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger , and most stronger party,
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)citation
I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.}}
Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight}}
See also
* biggerslanger
English
Noun
(en noun)- "Give it up will ya! get a job, ja langer !"
Roy: the discreet object of our desire, Irish Independent :
- And central to it all is wind-up, making a langer out of people, to use that now unfortunate word that can still only be used correctly and said correctly by Cork people, even though the rest of the country has taken to it with gusto, embarrassing themselves like white people trying to talk black slang to be "street".
Hurling abuse when there’s no team in sight, Irish Independent :
- "Langers boy, every wan of ‘em. Golfers are only langers. They’re only golfing cos they can’t hurl. Anyone that golfs in Cork is only a failed hurler and a langer, boy. "
- Mike opened his knees wide, so that his langer would be framed by the gap between his legs. For first impressions a boner would have been good, but not likely.
- He showed me a photograph. There was a woman and a man doing something, but I wasn't sure what. The man was standing over the woman holding his langer (the Cork word) and she was looking up at him smiling. I felt ill and started to walk backwards.
Usage notes
* Originally and mainly restricted toSynonyms
* (annoying or contemptible person) dickhead, knob, asshole, shithead, wanker * (penis) See alsoDerived terms
* langers, langered, acting the langer, langerloadExternal links
*The Gentrification of Langer?, Finbarr Barry, peoplesrepublicofcork *
langerfrom the Hiberno-English archive