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Actually, "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 th
by skykooler 7y ago
Actually, "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.