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swollen head

British

noun

another term for swelled head

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A canine lineage that impressive is bound to give any pup a slightly swollen head, which threatens to drive a serious wedge between Scooby and the comparatively insignificant Shaggy.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2020

The Rosses wouldn't let their star client watch the show, lest she get a swollen head.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2016

Tenor's Tonsillectomy Singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House leaves many a tenor with a swollen head but Tenor Tito Schipa who lately finished his first season there was left with swollen tonsils.

From Time Magazine Archive

Those I'm-the-wonderful-CEO ads are also justified as being good for the company--at least in the CEO's own swollen head.

From Time Magazine Archive

Among these repeated subjects is a crouched, blobby figure with a monstrously swollen head.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

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