swelled head
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7.4
- noun
- /swɛld hɛd/
- Offensive
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engreimiento
- I think it just gives him a swelled head.
- get a swelled head
Examples
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It's important to stay humble and not let a swelled head affect your relationships.
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One of the pictures showed May Anna feeding a piece of my nut loaf to Donald O'Connor, and I got a swelled head because May Anna told me that after they finished taking the pictures, Mr. O'Connor asked her if he could have another piece.
Fiction book (1990) -
So if I start getting a swelled head, just shoot me, alright?
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He's been getting a swelled head.
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Don't get a swelled head.
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A selfish, swelled head and a future that's behind you.
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I am not trying to inflate your already swelled head, but ask the doctors and nurses if we need to fix our health care system.
Blog text (8) -
Hey, you're gettin' a swelled head, Charlie.
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"You're giving him a swelled head," Tritia said.
Fiction book (1991) -
When everyone complimented her on her performance, she tried not to develop a swelled head.
Synonyms
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5.6
Extreme pride in how you look or what you can do
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9.0
A false belief that someone is much more important or powerful than they really are
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6.2
Thinking you are more important than other people
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6.1
Thinking and talking about yourself too much and feeling better than others
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7.2
Feeling that you are better than other people because you think highly of yourself
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7.9
Thinking that you are more important or powerful than others
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9.9
A person who thinks they are more important than other people
A person who thinks they are better than other people
Thinking you are much better or more important than other people
A person who is too proud and thinks they know more than others
Being much more sure of yourself than you should be
Antonyms
How Conceited
Surface Forms
Morphology
swelled + head
The literal meanings ('swelled' = enlarged, 'head' = head) naturally invite a metaphor of an inflated ego, so a learner can infer a relation to pride or conceit. However, the specific idiomatic sense 'excessive self-importance' is a conventionalized metaphor (similar but not identical to 'big-headed') and may not be fully predictable without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase swelled head may come from the simple image of a person's swelled head after praise or success, as if pride made the head bigger. That's why it means 'having too high an opinion of yourself'.