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> embiggened For non-native speakers: embiggened means huge, enlarged, overgrown. I am not a native speaker of English either
by anticensor 7y ago
> embiggened
For non-native speakers: embiggened means huge, enlarged, overgrown.
I am not a native speaker of English either
- squiggleblaz 7y ago*For non-Simpsons watchers The word was created as a joke in a Simpsons episode, a word used in Springfield only. It is described as "perfectly cromulent" by a Springfielder, which is evidently meant to mean "acceptable" or "ordinary" but is another Springfieldism. The joke may be lost on future generations who don't realise they're not normal words.
- skykooler 7y agoActually, "embiggened" is an actual word, though archaic, it's been around for over 130 years. The coinage of "cromulant" to describe it as such was the joke there, not "embiggen" itself. Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/embiggen
- kalleboo 7y agoThe show writers thought they came up with the word on their own, they didn't know about the previous usage of the word in 1884 (the episode was written in 1996, the internet wasn't quite as full of facts back then), "embiggen" was still supposed to be a joke.
- kahirsch 7y agoIt was used once in 1884 and the writer there specifically said he invented it. There are no other recorded uses of the word before The Simpsons.
- MrLeap 7y agoTo be fair to everyone, I've had native English speakers tell me what I speak is barely English.