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forswollen

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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adj

Meaning 1

Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

Examples

  • mid-1400s, John Conlee (ed.), Prose Merlin, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 1998, “The Tournament at Logres; King Lot and his Sons; and Morgan and Gyomar,” p. 285, line 315, “Ha, boyes!”" quod the kynge, “thow art fell and forswollen. [...] ”

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History

Etymology

From Middle English forswollen, for-swollen, forswellen, equivalent to for- + swollen.