swollen-headed

About 30 minutes after my sudden exit, I roll—cloggy-eyed, swollen-headed, and slightly embarrassed—into the wheelhouse to talk to Jim.

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

Swollen-headed George Washington was in demand outside.

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

If we were to apply some of the quantatitive methods for analysing literature developed by the great maverick literary theorist Franco Moretti, a map of the UK as a whole adjusted for size according to literary production might produce a hunched, swollen-headed creature with an enormous Scotland, a bulging Northern Ireland, withered limbs, an empty heart, and a vast and protuberant Norfolk.