swole

swəʊl

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#1·4h ago

(chiefly, AAVE, dialectal) Swollen, enlarged.

Well, we git him into the cook-car between us, and git him stretched out on the table and some water on him. He's kind of a sorry sight what with the black eye and swole lip he got earlier in the evenin' and now a lump on his head the si…

Origin: From earlier swoll, from , swall, swalle, and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle, forms of swellen, from , from , and preterite of ; further origin. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·4h ago

(AAVE, Southern US, also in other English varieties in the simple past tense until early 20th c.) : swelled; swollen.

His arm just swole up.

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