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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A simplified spelling of swell.

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Examples

  • Ai reely apresh. . .apprish. . .tink yur swel fur tellink me abowt teh CCC!

    I dreemed I had cheezburgers. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • The stadium was filled almost to capacity while Mugabe spoke, in sharp contrast to the sparse attendance last year, when the numbers began to swel only after Mugabe ` s speech.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • His other hand smoothed over the gentle swel ling of her abdomen.

    A Kiss Remembered Brown, Sandra, 1948- 1983

  • The drift of the swel carried us quickly under the gloomy mass of the platform, Andrew paying out the line as we went.

    Fear is the Key MacLean, Alistair 1961

  • She reckened and numbered carefully the days and months that passed, and beeing never with child before, did marvel greatly that in so short a time her belly should swel so big.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • In waltring waues of swel - ling Sea, by surges cast,

    The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter

  • Seated opposite his swel - tering and fully clothed junior, he would politely serve him with

    Manuscript Draft: Walter Reed: Doctor in Uniform, by Laura Wood, [19 -- ] 1943

  • Indeede, it is possible to the craft of the Deuill to make a womans bellie to swel after he hath that way abused her, which he may do, either by steiring vp her own humor, or by herbes, as we see beggars daily doe.

    Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595

  • We haue withdrawen vs out of men: but not withdrawen man out of vs. The tempestuous sea torments vs: we are grieued at the heart, and desirous to vomit: and to be discharged thereof, we remoue out of one ship into another, from a greater to a lesse: we promise our selues rest in vaine: they being always the same winds that blow, the same waues that swel, the same humors that are stirred.

    A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier Robert Garnier 1591

  • She reckened and numbered carefully the days and months that passed, and beeing never with child before, did marvel greatly that in so short a time her belly should swel so big.

    The Golden Asse 1566

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