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Swelled Head

Definition: Swelled Head

Swelled Head

Noun

1. An exaggerated opinion of your own importance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definition: Swelled Head

Domain	Definition
Slang in 1811	SWELLED HEAD. A disorder to which horses are extremely liable, particularly those of the subalterns of the army. This disorder is generally occasioned by remaining too long in one livery-stable or inn, and often arises to that height that it prevents thei. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
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Synonyms: Swelled Head

Synonyms: egotism (n), self-importance (n). (additional references)

Modern Translation: Swelled Head

Language		Translations for "swelled head"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njeri i fryrë (highflier, Highflyer). (various references)

Bulgarian		самомнителност (self sufficiency), надменност (arrogance, assumption, disdain, distance, haughtiness, hauteur, pride, stiffness, uppishness). (various references)

Hungarian		iszonyúan felfuvalkodott (to suffer from swelled head), büdös a gőgtől (to suffer from swelled head). (various references)

Pig Latin		elledsway eadhay.(various references)

Russian		самомнение (big head, conceit, egotism, self-conceit, self-importance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		oholost (arrogance, disdain, haughtiness, hauteur, hubris, morgue, snoot, superciliousness). (various references)

Turkish		kibirli tip (holier-than-thou), kendini beğenmiş (arrogant, assuming, bighead, bigheaded, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, cocky, conceited, egotistical, haughty, high hat, high-flown, high-flying, hoity toity, hoity-toity, holier-than-thou, important, insufferable, jackanapes, jumped-up, mugwump, overweening, pompous, pretentious, prig, priggish, self sufficient, self-important, self-opinionated, self-righteous, smug, Sniffy, snooty, snotty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy, supercilious, swollen-headed, taffy-nosed, toffee-nosed, toffy-nosed, uppish, uppity, upstage, vain). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính tự phụ (bumptiousness, chestiness, cockiness, conceit, donnishness, presumption, presumptuousness, pretentiousness, pride, self-conceit, swollen head), tính tự cao tự đại (swollen head). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Swelled Head

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: swellheaded.
	Words within the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-l-l-s-w"
	-2 letters: swellhead, weaselled, wellheads.
	-3 letters: weaseled, wellhead, wheedled, wheedles.
	-4 letters: allseed, daledhs, dawdles, deashed, deleads, dwelled, heddles, leashed, seaweed, shawled, shelled, swaddle, swelled, waddles, wedeled, welshed, wheedle, wheeled.
	-5 letters: addles, allees, daledh, dalles, dashed, dawdle, delead, dwells, headed, healed, heddle, heeded, heeled, helled, ladled, ladles, lashed, leaded, leased, saddle, sealed, seeded, seeled, shaded, shaled, shawed.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-d-e-e-e-h-l-l-s-w"
	+4 letters: swellheadedness.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Bibliography

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