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Swelled head   /swɛld hɛd/   Listen
Swelled head

noun
1.
An exaggerated opinion of your own importance.  Synonyms: egotism, self-importance.






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"Swelled head" Quotes from Famous Books



... said. "Flatter me. Make me get swelled head. Don't think of the consequences. Ladle it out. Tell me ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... pick of the new ones. There's a great promise in that lad. If he doesn't get swelled head early in the game ...
— William Adolphus Turnpike • William Banks

... real thing,—so that the newspapers give a column to his having been in the city almost two years,—and still goes about in the same shabby clothes, with the same friendly greeting for every one, it demonstrates clearly, as the barytone put it, that "he's got no swelled head on him; that's sure." ...
— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... "Swelled head. There have been awful rows—this is confidential—and he's got the hump. Thinks he ought to be the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or at least First Lord, instead of an Under Secretary. So he's going to chuck it, before he ...
— Simon the Jester • William J. Locke

... this session the methods which had made him famous and feared in the preceding. He admits that he may have had for a while a "swelled head," for in the chaos of conflicting principles and no-principles in which his life was thrown, he decided to act independently and to let his conscience determine his action on each question which arose. He flocked by himself on a peak. He was too practical, ...
— Theodore Roosevelt; An Intimate Biography, • William Roscoe Thayer



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