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swole.

Swollen, enlarged.

5 characters2 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/swəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/swoʊl/General-American
  1. Swollen, enlarged.

    dialectal
  2. Swollen, enlarged. Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.

    dialectal · slang
    I ain't swole enough, brah. I gotta work out in the gym more.
  3. Swollen, enlarged. Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.

    dialectal · slang
    her titties got me swole.
  4. Full (of something); bursting with.

    figuratively
  5. Extremely proud or arrogant.

    figuratively
  6. Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.

    figuratively · usually
Where this word comes from

From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.

verb/swəʊl/Received-Pronunciation/swoʊl/General-American
  1. simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.

    Southern-US · also · form-of · participle · past
    His arm just swole up.
    I ate until my belly had swole.
Where this word comes from

From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.

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