overswollen

English

Etymology

over- +‎ swollen

Adjective

overswollen (comparative more overswollen, superlative most overswollen)

  1. Excessively swollen or puffed up.
    • 2012, C. Stephen Jaeger, Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West:
      He's scornful of her big, overswollen ego and her big overswollen movie ideas. But he'll scavenge off her leavings.
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