swole
/swəʊl/ · adj
Meaning
- Swollen, enlarged.
- Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular.
- Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard.
- Full (of something); bursting with.
- Extremely proud or arrogant.
- Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.
- simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
Etymology / origin
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.
- *swellaną(gem-pro)→
- *swall(gem-pro)→
- sweall(Old English)→
- swal(enm)→
- swole (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, der
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