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A Word 'The Simpsons' Made Up is Now in the Dictionary

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This news embiggens my spirit.

On Monday, Merriam-Webster, the most social media-savvy dictionary, announced that 850 words had been added to its online dictionary. One of those words is embiggen, which Merriam-Webster defines as "to make bigger or more expansive" and which was invented by The Simpsons writer Dan Greaney in 1996.

It comes from a Season 7 episode called "Lisa the Iconoclast." The episode introduced viewers to the city of Springfield's motto, passed down from its founder Jebediah Springfield: "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."
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http://www.tvguide.com/news/embiggen-the-simpsons-dictionary/
 
LKellerIII said:
Along the lines of "embiggen," I looked up "bigly," and learned that it is, in fact, a word that was widely used for decades, but had recently fallen out of favor until Trump started using it again. So my feeling for the orange narcissist aside, I guess he deserves credit for bring it back...bigly.
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It was my impression that he was trying to say "Big League", and was not pronouncing very well. It would not be the first time he has done something like that.
 
CTListener said:
I though it was "big league" as well.
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No. It was "bigly." He uses it to mean "a lot." Kind of how people these days use "literally" when really all they are trying to do is emphasize their point. So if I say "I was literally falling asleep because I was so tired," even though it's obvious I was being literal, using the word emphasizes it more than if I just said "I was falling asleep because I was so tired."

So I were Trump I would say, "Because I was so tired, I was falling asleep...bigly."
 
From dictionary.com:

bigly
[big-lee] Archaic.
Spell Syllables
Word Origin
adverb
1. in a big way; greatly: Their gifts made the children smile bigly.
Aaron was tall for his age, and bigly built.

2. strongly; with violent force:
Waves pounded bigly against our starboard side.

3. boastfully; haughtily:
She pronounces her opinions bigly, as if they are divine mandates.

adjective
4. pleasantly habitable:
a settlement of modest but bigly homes.
 
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