Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Swollen, enlarged. · Of a person: having large, well-developed muscles; muscular. · Of a person: erect; having an erection of the penis; sexually aroused, hard. · Full (of something); bursting with.
simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.
From earlier swoll, from Middle English swal, swall, swalle (simple past tense), and suoll, suolle, swalle, swol, swole, swolle, iswolle, yswolle (past participle), inflected forms of swellen (“to swell”), from Old English sweall (simple past tense), from Proto-Germanic *swall, first and third person singular preterite of Proto-Germanic *swellaną (“to swell”); further origin uncertain.
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