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- noun One who, or that which,
swells . - adjective nonstandard
comparative form ofswell : moreswell
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Examples
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At any rate, the reading was swell, the audience was sweller, and the company was grand.
busy weekends and cherry blossoms blue_succubus 2007
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This is sweller, and should allow wiccans, AA chapters and algebra clubs to qualify.
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This is sweller, and should allow wiccans, AA chapters and algebra clubs to qualify.
Philocrites: Can't get enough of Strayhorn and the Unitarians? 2004
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I was grateful that Aaron was a lot sweller about sharing Danny than I would have been about Blank.
Gingerbread Rachel Cohn 2002
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I was grateful that Aaron was a lot sweller about sharing Danny than I would have been about Blank.
Gingerbread Rachel Cohn 2002
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"All's swell that ends swell," and nothing could be sweller than the audience on the first night.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various
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An 'Minnie Wenzel, there bein' none sweller, hires her to do up her weddin 'linens.
Buttered Side Down: Stories Edna Ferber 1926
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And it's so much sweller than messy sherbets and layer cake.
Martie, the Unconquered Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923
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She saw the humanity of all this mass -- none the less that they envied her position and spoke privily of "those snippy private secretaries that think they're so much sweller than the rest of us."
The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918
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That's ever so much sweller than that everlasting old diamond.
The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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