When I was a kid in the 70s slang words for "good" included "cool", "groovy", "far-out", "tubular", and "rad". I'm sure the present generation has their own. Perhaps whoever decided that these words should mean "good" had some logical, carefully thought-out reason for it.
I think it more likely that it just popped into his head at the moment. I've occasionally mused that it would be interesting to pick some totally random word and get a few people to start using it as a slang word for "good" and see if you can get it to catch on.
Like go around saying, "Wow, that was totally perpendicular, man! Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Ask Question. Asked 9 years, 5 months ago. Active 1 year, 7 months ago. Viewed 19k times. But as an adjective, the meaning of the word becomes completely different: Whence came this disconnect?
Improve this question. Daniel Daniel Looks like a pretty trivial extension of meaning to me. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Here are noun senses 8 and 9, with subsenses: 8 a. Of a feeling, emotion, etc. Now rare or Obs. Proud or arrogant, or in later use pompous or pretentious air orbehaviour; a piece of swagger. Turgid or inflated style of language. A fashionably or stylishly dressed person; hence, a person of good social position, a highly distinguished person.
One who is distinguished or eminent in achievement; one who is very clever or good at something. Used in reference to turgid or inflated style of language. Also with it. Of persons: Stylishly or handsomely dressed or equipped; of good social position; of distinguished appearance or status.
More recently, in weakened use as a general expression of approval. Of things: Distinguished in style; stylish; first-rate, tip-top. Hence swell-mobsman n.
Carolyn Hooper. Dan N. Phil conners. Stephen C Howard. Please support The Word Detective. Makes a great gift! Click cover for more. Search us! To search for a specific phrase, put it between quotation marks. My husband and I just had this conversation! He got all swole up the way unimportant people do when they're trying to be important…. Speaking of a police subsidy, he said that those who were opposed to it had "practically swole up and died when it was passed.
In the late 20th century, swole gained new meaning in bodybuilding culture. Specifically, it came to mean "extremely muscular" or "having well-defined muscles. Although this sense of swole has connections to rap and hip-hop culture, it tends to get most of its use from gym rats in general as well as writers on fitness.
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On the other hand, the stamina of its spin-offs, such as swelfie , swoldier , and swolemate , is iffy. We asked some of our favorite swolemates that's internet speak for soul mates who like to get swole, as in muscular or swollen, together about the creative ways they sneak in a workout and how it has improved their relationships.
We'll see. There is also swoleiosis , the least-used swole derivative, referring to the not exactly serious condition of being swole to the nth degree. Perhaps more people will come down with it if swole continues to pull its weight, but in the meantime we'll be here spotting it. Words We're Watching talks about words we are increasingly seeing in use but that have not yet met our criteria for entry.
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