The SImpsons have done a lot over their 29 seasons. Including some pretty impressive predictions, but now they will be credited with creating a word. Merriam Webster announce they are adding 850 words to the dictionary. Including ’embiggen.’ ‘Embniggen’ means “to make bigger or more expansive: enlarge, expand.”
The word was first used in the season 7 episode “Lisa The Iconoclast.” Jebediah Springfield, or Troy McClure playing the Springfield founding father, used it in this sentence, ‘A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.’ Maybe ‘cromulent’ makes it next time.
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Also, ’embiggen’ is now a word we enter. https://t.co/3XmkZO0ral pic.twitter.com/wLUDsWIAga
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) March 5, 2018
