name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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biggers
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CMU ARPABET: B IH1 G ER0 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
plural of Bigger
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Usage: form-of, plural
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noun
Meaning 3
Those bigger than oneself.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: plural, plural-only
Examples
- Forest and Stream (1882), Outing, Volumes 1-2, page 62: “Do not his biggers and betters brag of scores which would not have been made if their guides and oarsmen had not fished?”
- Francis William Rolt-Wheeler (1919), The boy with the U.S. trappers, page 259 of 388: “No cattle-killing grizzly this, but a rumbling big black bear, who perhaps, but not surely, might once or twice, in his life have dined on lamb or veal, yet who had stumbled into the fate made for his biggers if not his betters.”
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verb
Meaning 4
third-person singular simple present indicative of bigger
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person
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History
Etymology
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