From the article:
“Cromulent,” meanwhile, has already enjoyed legitimacy in the Oxford English Dictionary and Dictionary.com.
I invented a compression scheme to reduce a stream of data bytes (in a very specific format) to the smallest possible size. Naturally the compression function is bebigulate() and the expansion function is rebigualate().
Odd, usually the blood gets off at the second floor.
Thank you, I was just about to post that “crapulent” and “crapulence” are real words that have been around for a long time.
How about “craptacular”?
I don’t find ‘embiggen’ all that artful, yet easily understandable, far better than all the words which sound like someone just made them up. ‘Cromulent’ is an important word, it expresses the more nuanced and intricate concept of the essence of words and how we understand them. From the very first use of the word it’s meaning was clear and understood by people. I doubt anything now considered AI could work that out on it’s own.
That only applies to outdoor Xmas decorations.
Twenty volumes of The Oxford English Dictionary
From wiki:
Following each definition are several brief illustrating quotations presented in chronological order from the earliest ascertainable use of the word in that sense to the last ascertainable use for an obsolete sense, to indicate both its life span and the time since its desuetude, or to a relatively recent use for current ones.
desuetude
has not yet made it into my under-the-bridge Oxford Dictionary
Desuetude is a great word! I can’t wait to use it in a sentence.
Hang on… 
It just uses existing word forming elements em- and -en around a simple word “big”, it’s basically embolden but with big instead of bold.
It’s amazing that we were able to understand this nonsense word via context, giving it a unique, useful, distinction from existing words, through a single 5 word phrase on a TV show that made no effort to tell us what the word meant.
I could’ve sworn “cromulent” was born in this classic.
(1) Blackadder Johnson’s Dictionary - YouTube
What about “smallify”?
Goes back at least to 1969.