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To: Hoplite

Well, up our way, we are generally not familiar with this word ... care to define for the rest of us? lol!


20 posted on 12/31/2010 7:18:26 PM PST by doc1019 (Martyrdom is a great thing, until it is your turn.)
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To: doc1019
To make something larger; to grow or expand.

First used in 1884!

21 posted on 12/31/2010 7:44:38 PM PST by Hoplite
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To: doc1019
It's from a Simpsons episode, along with "cromulent," as in "Embiggened is a perfectly cromulent word."
29 posted on 12/31/2010 8:55:13 PM PST by dr_lew
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