biggen

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Eng. biggen, to 'build (Chapter XIII).

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  1. To make big; increase.
  2. To grow big; become larger. [Dialectal.]
  3. 2. To gain strength after confinement. [North. Eng.] The gossips regularly wish the lady a good biggening. Brockett, North Country Words, p. 16.

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  • Eng. biggen, to 'build (Chapter XIII). —  The Romance of Names
  • And then that young Dubroca biggen very plain to pay his intention 'to Mélanie, and we are all pretty glad to notiz that, biccause whiles he don't got that dash of De l'Isle, he's modess, yet still brave to a perfegtion; and he's square and got plenty sense, and he's steady and he's kind. —  The Flower of the Chapdelaines
 

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