bigger

CEFRA1

/ˈbɪɡəː/

adjective

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01
adjective
above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent.
02
adjective
Extra detail
A surname.

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Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

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That whereas, and whereby, and by which, the major, and most greater, and most bigger, and most stronger party, […]
She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir.
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.

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She's in along with mother, talking about the college; it's to be biggered, sir.
1871, Julian Leep, A Ready-Made Family, volume 1, published 2009, page 322
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.
1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter V, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC
But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got. I biggered my factory. I biggered my roads.
1971, Dr Seuss, The Lorax, page 39
The money they splurged to the board's delight Will be spent biggering IT services, clean out of sight
2002 August 5, Mark Gibbs, “IBM and PwC: Rhyme and Reasons”, in Network World, page 69

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