Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adj
Swollen; puffed out.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo swell; to puff.
From Middle English bolnen, bollen, from Old Norse bólgna, from bolginn (“swollen”), past participle of a verb represented by Old English belgan (“to swell”). Compare Swedish bulna (“to swell, be swollen”), Danish bolne (“to swell, be swollen”). Related to belly, bellows.
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