Largen vs Bigger - What's the difference?
largen | bigger |
(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}}
As verbs the difference between largen and bigger
is that largen is (uk) to enlarge while bigger is (nonstandard|rare) to make or become bigger.As an adjective bigger is
(big).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}}
