swole

adj

1. (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 size of a hen's egg where the potato masher's hit him.”

   “Hell fahr, I bet my head is so swole with law I oughta be jedge and make them lawyers yore-honor me all day long, till cows drop coon-hounds stid of calves and bulls grow tits.”

   “Anyone they missed could get away over the fence while they was reloading. Neither one of them would quit though their trigger fingers got so swole they couldn't get them out of the guard.”

   “"Brownie expects me. She'll get swole if I don't milk her first thing."”

   “Sonny asked, "Will you see good again out of that swole eye?"”

2. (dialectal, slang)Swollen, enlarged.

   “I ain't swole enough, brah. I gotta work out in the gym more.”

   “I will find something to slit my throat or hang some sheets from the ceiling or make one of these big, swole niggaz in here so mad at me that they break my neck.”

   “"That nigga lucky he still breathing right now, yo. I should've sent some of my niggas from Bunche Place over there to take care of his swole ass," Scoot said.”

   “It's the athletes who showed me how to get "swole." I found a series of online videos by this megaripped dude who taught me how to fine-tune my body and turn it into a machine. [...] It worked; I got swole.”

3. (dialectal, slang)Swollen, enlarged.

   “her titties got me swole.”

   “You'd like him a lot. Big and all swole up thinking about you. What kind of panties you got on, Olive?”

4. (figuratively)Full (of something); bursting with.

   “Sourdough went on to explain the occasion for the festivity. "The Popplewells are so swole with pride now they got the upstairs house finished that they got to give a house-warmin'."”

   “Honey, I'm all swole up with pride. Here's the horrible part. You're going to have to stay here and meet Norman.”

   “Sweating and red on the dance floor / without meat hooks aimed at my skin, / except for one woman, I ducked / into a room swole with men in work boots.”

   “It was a place she'd heard about only in story — a trapper country where the waters were swole with trout and beaver, and where the L'Etangs fatted and thrived.”

5. (figuratively)Extremely proud or arrogant.

   “Strangers weren't sure she was drunk, but I knew. Granny got braggish when drunk. She got swole up about herself. When she took to bragging on her thoughts and notions it was time to jump from the station wagon and walk or brace for a crash.”

   “Just shut your hole and listen, swole-headed prick.”

   “I'm still grinning like a fool when I walk out. I'm so swole with my own foresight that it takes me a minute to realize that C's gone.”

6. (figuratively, usually)Upset; experiencing strong negative emotion.

   “Every once in a while, maybe twice a year, Bessie gets all galled under the britchin' about something [...] Usually over some triflin' little thing that don't amount to a hill of beans, like I won't wash my feet or something, but she gets all swole up like a snakebit pup and says she's leavin' me for good this time.”

   “She could pitch drunks out in the street like horseshoes and before then I'd never thought of her in a lovely way, she being big and thick, but now I saw her in Pugh's office peeling off her Wranglers and showing her dimpled thighs and I just got all swole up with lonesome.”

   “"My mother said I can stay here as long as I want to," I said, irking the shit outta him. He got swole just like I knew he would.”

   “Of course, they was all swole up about it. Aint no self-repect'n smithy or ranch hand would be caught dead do'n housework.”

verb

1. (Southern-US, also, form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of swell: swelled; swollen.

   “His arm just swole up.”

   “I ate until my belly had swole.”

   “Mildly it [the wind] kiſt our ſailes, and, freſh, and ſweet, / As, to a ſtomack ſterv’d, whoſe inſides meete, / Meate comes, it came; and ſwole our ſailes, when wee / So joyd, as Sara’ her ſwelling joy’d to ſee.”

   “If you drinks a drop more, Miss Lucy, you'll just go like my pore young sister goed, [...] Pop she did not. She swole … swole and swole. [...] I say she swole—and what is more she swole clean into a dropsy.”

   “[M]y tongue swole up and gagged me and my eyes blurred over with blood […].”