"biggen" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: biggens [present, singular, third-person], biggening [participle, present], biggened [participle, past], biggened [past]
Etymology: From big + -en. More at big. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|big|en|id2=inchoative}} big + -en Head templates: {{en-verb}} biggen (third-person singular simple present biggens, present participle biggening, simple past and past participle biggened)
  1. (rare, obsolete) To make bigger Tags: obsolete, rare Related terms: embiggen
    Sense id: en-biggen-en-verb-OUeCed4P Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb}} biggen
  1. Pronunciation spelling of begin. Tags: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: begin
    Sense id: en-biggen-en-verb-Bu37iIAY Categories (other): English pronunciation spellings, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 7 68 6 9 10
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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