Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of sweal, swale.
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- adjective slang, eye dialect
Swollen . - adjective Pertaining to men
showboating themselves in front of one another, sometimes before a fight.
Etymologies
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Examples
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So also, perhaps, in swole, which is fast displacing swelled.
Chapter 9. The Common Speech. 3. The Verb Henry Louis 1921
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I had noticed a bit on my arm but didnt think anything of it and let it go about a week and in that time my arm swole up to where the skin had streched way beyond what it normally was.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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I had noticed a bit on my arm but didnt think anything of it and let it go about a week and in that time my arm swole up to where the skin had streched way beyond what it normally was.
What's more fearsome in the wilds, a man eating shark, or a menacing rattle snake? 2009
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When the cancer started spreading above his knees, it swole up Robert's legs so bad he couldn't wear his usual slacks.
Comes After Cato 2010
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The way his cheeks swole out, then caved in as if he were being inhaled into it, the way the golden keys seemed to grab his fingers like little magnets snatching at iron filings, causing them to leap and dance in unexpected, startling fits.
“Horns” by Joe Hill (Reviewed by Robert Thompson) Robert 2010
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His face was all swole up, and I figured he needed oxygen.
Venom Joan Brady 2010
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No matter how hard times got then, when wasn't food enough for the table and the debt growed too fast to pay off at the general store, or a homegrown pack of the White League terrorize us or string up one of our men to keep us in our place, still our hearts and heads swole up with the possibilities of Reconstruction.
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The people who were opposed to that, they practically swole up and died when it was passed.
Remarks By The President To Mayors At Breakfast Reception ITY National Archives 1999
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Although I understand in Stockton that that weasel, Charles Avery, is sporting a broken nose, about five less teeth, and a shiner swole up the size of a Pasadena orange.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
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Although I understand in Stockton that that weasel, Charles Avery, is sporting a broken nose, about five less teeth, and a shiner swole up the size of a Pasadena orange.
Surrender A Dream Jill Barnett 1991
Logophile77 commented on the word swole
SLANG: see buff, strong, muscular
November 17, 2017