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say it: sweld
swelled is an adjective meaning "feeling self-importance". It is pronounced /ˈswɛld/ — sweld. It carries one recorded sense.
feeling self-importance
“too big for his britches”
“had a swelled head”
“he was swelled with pride”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for swelled come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.