Blog is a Mix Tape Vox 2008-01-29T03:39:04Z Jason http://negroplease.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full tag:vox.com,2006:6p00c10e0f6f1fd3b4/tags/ugly+betty/ rumor has it, a blogger once lived here. speakeasy: big-ups to big-up tag:vox.com,2008-01-29:asset-6a00c10e0f6f1fd3b400e398d733f30004 2008-01-29T01:38:17Z 2008-01-29T03:39:04Z Jason http://negroplease.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom-full

Note that Jaime Pressly said that “Ugly Betty” was “big-upping the ugly fat girl,” not that the show was “bigging up the ugly fat girl” (or “bigging the ugly fat girl up“). So we find that big-up is being treated as a single entity that can be inflected with verb endings, rather than as the verb big plus the particle up.

- "Big-Up" on the Rise by Ben Zimmer, OUPblog, 01.24.08

I'm sure my first awareness of "Big-Up" was Biggie Smalls giving "Big-Ups to Brooklyn". Given his Caribbean roots that all makes sense.

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