/swəʊl/, /swoʊl/
OriginFrom 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.
- dialectalSwollen, enlarged.
“Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the even”
“Hell fahr, I bet my head is so swole with law I oughta be jedge and make them lawyers yore-honor me all day long, till cows drop coon-hounds stid of calves and bulls grow tits.”
“Anyone they missed could get away over the fence while they was reloading. Neither one of them would quit though their trigger fingers got so swole they couldn't get them out of the guard.”
- dialectal, slangOf a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
“I ain't swole enough, brah. I gotta work out in the gym more.”
“I will find something to slit my throat or hang some sheets from the ceiling or make one of these big, swole niggaz in here so mad at me that they break my neck.”
“"That nigga lucky he still breathing right now, yo. I should've sent some of my niggas from Bunche Place over there to take care of his swole ass," Scoot said.”
- dialectal, slangOf a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
“her titties got me swole.”
“You'd like him a lot. Big and all swole up thinking about you. What kind of panties you got on, Olive?”
- figurativelyFull (of something); bursting with.
“Sourdough went on to explain the occasion for the festivity. "The Popplewells are so swole with pride now they got the upstairs house finished that they got to give a house-warmin'."”
“Honey, I'm all swole up with pride. Here's the horrible part. You're going to have to stay here and meet Norman.”
“Sweating and red on the dance floor / without meat hooks aimed at my skin, / except for one woman, I ducked / into a room swole with men in work boots.”
- figurativelyExtremely proud or arrogant.
“Strangers weren't sure she was drunk, but I knew. Granny got braggish when drunk. She got swole up about herself. When she took to bragging on her thoughts and notions it was time to jump from the sta”
“Just shut your hole and listen, swole-headed prick.”
“I'm still grinning like a fool when I walk out. I'm so swole with my own foresight that it takes me a minute to realize that C's gone.”
- figuratively, usuallyUpset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
“Every once in a while, maybe twice a year, Bessie gets all galled under the britchin' about something [...] Usually over some triflin' little thing that don't amount to a hill of beans, like I won't w”
“She could pitch drunks out in the street like horseshoes and before then I'd never thought of her in a lovely way, she being big and thick, but now I saw her in Pugh's office peeling off her Wranglers”
“"My mother said I can stay here as long as I want to," I said, irking the shit outta him. He got swole just like I knew he would.”
- Southern-US, also, form-of, participle, pastsimple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
“His arm just swole up.”
“I ate until my belly had swole.”
“Mildly it [the wind] kiſt our ſailes, and, freſh, and ſweet, / As, to a ſtomack ſterv’d, whoſe inſides meete, / Meate comes, it came; and ſwole our ſailes, when wee / So joyd, as Sara’ her ſwelling jo”
Formsswoler(comparative) · swolest(superlative) · swoll(alternative)