forswollen
forswollen adjective: excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
Adjective
forswollen (comparative more forswollen, superlative most forswollen)
- Excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
- 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. […] ” - Who tother day wyth arrowes kéene, haue nayled to the ground,
The serpent Python so forswolne, whose filthie wombe did hide
So many acres of the grounde in which he did abide.1567, Arthur Golding, transl., The XV Bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, Book 1
- 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,
Forms of forswollen
| comparative | more forswollen |
|---|---|
| superlative | most forswollen |
Origin of forswollen
From Middle English forswollen, for-swollen, forswellen, equivalent to for- + swollen.
Questions about forswollen
- What does forswollen mean?
- Forswollen means excessively swollen; (figuratively) puffed up with pride; boastful; enraged.
- What part of speech is forswollen?
- Forswollen is an adjective.
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