Etymologies
- From em- + big + -en. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“+2 points: Using the neologism 'embiggen'- in which I imagine/hope is a Simpsons reference”
“And - just a thought - "embiggen" is already part of children's vocabulary from The Simpsons - a "perfectly cromulent word" so could you use it and by analogy "ensmallen"?”
“I'm concerned re the "embiggen" usage...just what do you spend your time doing?”
“Julie at No Fancy Name takes you through the enhanced feed features of Feedflare, complete with screenshots and the repeated use of the verb "embiggen," which always makes me smile:FeedFlare came about after the FeedBurner folks sat around thinking about "the importance of the feed item and the ability to leverage the structure of the feed to build a bridge between web services and the content item.”
“Only the second time I've ever encountered the word "embiggen".”
“BadAstronomer: I misspelled "embiggen" and my spellchecker caught it.”
“, -2 / +13I just like how they they keep using the word "embiggen" ...”
“Check out the following mailer (click to "embiggen") and decide for yourself.”
“Please click the graph to "embiggen," and note that Mark Warner outperformed the Democratic House candidate in every district except the 9th, where Rick Boucher was unopposed and kicked butt!”
“Anyone who has seen a trailer for Killzone 2 (the “Ballet of Death” trailer is available at the end of this article for your viewing pleasure!) will testify to it being a graphical powerhouse and is the first game I have played that rivals Gears of War 2 in this aspect (Click on the pics throughout the article to embiggen them!).”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘embiggen’.
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New and Unholy Coinage
21st century coinage. Any strange words you`ve seen on TV or heard from irritating young people.
hateration, holleration, chillax, weaksauce, pimpin', hella, meme, blamin, propagandhi, jazzercise, blog, social lubricant and 58 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
[Open] Perfectly Cromulent Words
Cite the episode, if you like. If you can provide a quotation, even better.
cromulent, embiggen, elephant fresh, craptacular, spankological, retirony
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Words grabbed from real life conversa...
If I've seen it, heard it, or marvelled at it, I'll stick it here.
cruft, ermine, redundant, shakespearean, camino, marvelous, stupendous, chagrin, shaven, sleek, smug, stillness and 325 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Favorite Words That Aren't Really Words
Whether slang, acronyms, or madeupical, they're too good not to put on some list or other. See the companion list, "Favorite Words That Are Really More Like Phrases," here.
pwned, craptacular, embiggen, phwoar, dealie-bob, doojiggy, bootylicious, craptastic, ^_^, π, oo-ee-oo-ah-ah-ti..., gustnado and 326 more...
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some words
phatic, macerate, amanuenses, theophagy, seraglio, gloaming, geophagy, metaphone, anastrophe, neologism, tetragrammaton, bête noire and 568 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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sarahatlee's Words
pants, nekkid, schadenfreude, unseasonably, illicit, glaswegian, cripes, futz, drawers, scupper, coulrophobic, redacted and 254 more...
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uncleosbert's Words
omphalaskepsis, gravid, steatopygian, marmalade, triffid, scurrilous, kith, lilliputian, slunk, snailular, milquetoast, elephantine and 191 more...
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seanahan's Words
lacustrine, indubitably, masala, balustrade, arcane, gambit, bagatelle, demonstrative, epicaricacy, cacophony, archetype, picaresque and 418 more...
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amcd56's Words
undisillusioned, truthiness, wikiality, nonunparallel, bafflegab, otiose, snarky, gynotikolobomasso..., battology, unasinous, zaftig, mumbo-jumbo and 122 more...
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I love you for your sound
loquacious, bumble, klaxon, rhythmicity, lexicon, ghastly, liquidation, labradorescence, springtide, foist, Herculean, cankerblossom and 77 more...
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jabberwordie
elby-bone, nerble, chickenbutt, luff, ya-cha-cha-cha, yanno, prolly, embiggen, vittles, hoobedoo, thing-a-ma-jig, sticky bun and 77 more...
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quaint
quaint little words i wish to collect in a woven basket and frolic about with
dapper, tidbit, tubthump, aloof, hullabaloo, tintinnabulum, bungalow, flounder, embiggen, turnip, befreckle, thimble
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rodbegbie's Words
merkin, ferret, unctuous, superfluous, riboflavin, thiamin, phenylalanine, ethereal, cromulent, embiggen, snark, foo and 5 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for embiggen.
mrgosh Embiggen is one of two words (the other being "cromulent") popularized by The Simpsons. The best known example of it on the show is Springfield's town motto: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man." or something to that effect. There is a good WikiPedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embiggen#Embiggen_and_cromulent Jun 26, 2009
chained_bear Every time I see this I laugh out loud. Dec 23, 2008
jrome Team Flickr continues to embiggen with the fabulously successful completion of Project Kakulito, or rather the arrival of Rohan Metzler. Congratulations to Kakul and Jon.
Posted by Heather Champ http://blog.flickr.com/flickrblog/2007/02/kakulito.html Feb 16, 2007
rodbegbie Origin: http://www.snpp.com/episodes/3F13.html Dec 2, 2006