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swollen-headed

adjective as in cocksure

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A woman giving birth needs to have a pelvis as wide as possible to fit our swollen-headed babies through undamaged.

A swollen-headed raider, full of boasts and stupid jokes and mead.

And don't you call me your dear Nash! you swollen-headed butler!

U.S. forces based in the South and South Korean politicians, especially President Lee Myung-bak, come in for especially florid disdain: They are “swollen-headed traitors,” “half-baked extra-large Philistines,” “wicked running dogs” and “loud-mouthed gangsters.”

I couldn't sit down to eat my meals with a lot of swollen-headed nobodies.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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