Wellest vs Swellest - What's the difference?

wellest | swellest |

As adjectives the difference between wellest and swellest

is that wellest is (well) while swellest is (nonstandard) (swell).

wellest

English

Adjective

(head)

(well)

well

English

(wikipedia well)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), from (etyl) (m), . Related to (will).

Alternative forms

* (dialectal) * (Scotland) *

Adverb

(lb) Accurately, competently, satisfactorily.

* {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page= 266

, passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well -remembered road.}}

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well . Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

(lb) Completely, fully.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

(lb) To a significant degree.

Very (as a general-purpose intensifier).

* 1999 , "Drummond Pearson", What Ash are doing right now...'' (on Internet newsgroup ''alt.music.ash )

That guy rocks! I think he's called Matthew Lillard or sommat but he is well cool in Scream.

* 2002 , "jibaili", FIFA 2003 How is it?'' (on Internet newsgroup ''microsoft.public.xbox )

Hey Dude / FIFA 2003 is well wicked, I've got FIFA 2002 on PS2, David Beckham on Xbox and Football Manager on Xbox too, out of all pf(SIC) them FIFA 2003 is easliy(SIC) the best.

* 2003 , Steve Eddy, Empower, Book 2

Hey, you should've seen it, it was well good.

In such manner as is desirable; so as one could wish; satisfactorily; favourably; advantageously.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

It boded well to you.

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

Know / In measure what the mind may well contain.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

All the world speaks well of you.

Derived terms

* all too well * as well * do well by doing good * full well * fully well * just as well * pretty well * well and truly * well-behaved * well-known * well-mannered * well-padded * well-read * well-used

Adjective

In good health.

I had been sick, but now I'm well .

(archaic) Prudent; good; well-advised.

* 1897 , National Association of Railway Surgeons, Railway surgeon , page 191:

On leaving the operating table it is well to put the patient in a bed previously warmed and supplied with hot cans.

Derived terms

* full well * get well * * well-being

Interjection

(en interjection)

Used to acknowledge a statement or situation.

* , chapter=5

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=“Well ,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.}}

An exclamation of surprise, often doubled or tripled.

Used in speech to express the overcoming of reluctance to say something.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well ,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}

Used in speech to fill gaps; filled pause.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A hole sunk into the ground as a source of water, oil, natural gas or other fluids.

* Bible, John iv. 11

The woman said unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.

A place where a liquid such as water surfaces naturally; a spring.

* Milton

Begin, then, sisters of the sacred well .

A small depression suitable for holding liquid, or other objects.

(figurative) A source of supply.

* Spenser

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefiled

* Keble

a well of serious thought and pure

(nautical) A vertical, cylindrical trunk in a ship, reaching down to the lowest part of the hull, through which the bilge pumps operate.

(nautical) The cockpit of a sailboat.

(nautical) A compartment in the middle of the hold of a fishing vessel, made tight at the sides, but having holes perforated in the bottom to let in water to keep fish alive while they are transported to market.

(nautical) A vertical passage in the stern into which an auxiliary screw propeller may be drawn up out of the water.

(military) A hole or excavation in the earth, in mining, from which run branches or galleries.

(architecture) An opening through the floors of a building, as for a staircase or an elevator; a wellhole.

(metalworking) The lower part of a furnace, into which the metal falls.

A well drink.

They're having a special tonight: $1 wells .

(video games) The playfield of the video game Tetris , into which the blocks fall.

Derived terms

* ink well * light well (architecture) * oil well * spare tire well, spare tyre well * window well (architecture) * wishing well

Etymology 3

From (etyl) (m). Cognate with German .

Verb

(en verb)

To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring.

* Dryden

[Blood] welled from out the wound.

* Bryant

[Yon spring] wells softly forth.

To have something seep out of the surface.

Her eyes welled with tears.

Statistics

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swellest

English

Adjective

(head)

(nonstandard) (swell)

swell

English

Verb

To become bigger, especially due to being engorged.

* Shakespeare

Monarchs to behold the swelling scene!

To cause to become bigger.

Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring.

* Atterbury

It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=2 citation , passage=For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks.}}

* 2013 June 18, (Simon Romero), " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):

After a harsh police crackdown last week fueled anger and swelled protests, President Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla who was imprisoned under the dictatorship and has now become the target of pointed criticism herself, tried to appease dissenters by embracing their cause on Tuesday.

To grow gradually in force or loudness.

The organ music swelled .

To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate.

to be swelled with pride or haughtiness

To be raised to arrogance.

* Shakespeare

Here he comes, swelling like a turkey cock.

* Sir Walter Scott

You swell at the tartan, as the bull is said to do at scarlet.

To be elated; to rise arrogantly.

* Dryden

Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

To be turgid, bombastic, or extravagant.

swelling''' words; a '''swelling style

To protuberate; to bulge out.

A cask swells in the middle.

Noun

(en noun)

The act of swelling.

Increase of power in style, or of rhetorical force.

* Landor:

the swell and subsidence of his periods

A long series of ocean waves, generally produced by wind, and lasting after the wind has ceased.

* 1883 , , Treasure Island , ch. 24:

There was a great, smooth swell upon the sea.

(music) A gradual crescendo followed by diminuendo.

* , chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}

(music) A device for controlling the volume of a pipe organ.

(music) A division in a pipe organ, usually the largest enclosed division.

A hillock or similar raised area of terrain.

* 1909 , , The Last of the Chiefs , ch. 2:

Off on the crest of a swell a moving figure was seen now and then. "Antelope," said the hunters.

(informal) A person who is dressed in a fancy or elegant manner.

* , "The Kickleburys on the Rhine" in The Christmas Books of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh :

It costs him no more to wear all his ornaments about his distinguished person than to leave them at home. If you can be a swell at a cheap rate, why not?

* 1887 , , The Cash Boy , ch. 9:

He was dressed in a flashy style, not unlike what is popularly denominated a swell .

(informal) A person of high social standing; an important person.

* 1864 , , The Small House at Allington , ch. 2:

"I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it." . . .

"I'll tell you what he is, Bell; Mr Crosbie is a swell'." And Lilian Dale was right; Mr Crosbie was a ' swell .

* 1906 , , The Trespasser , ch. 8:

You buy a lot of Indian or halfbreed loafers with beaver-skins and rum, go to the Mount of the Burning Arrows, and these fellows dance round you and call you one of the lost race, the Mighty Men of the Kimash Hills. And they'll do that while the rum lasts. Meanwhile you get to think yourself a devil of a swell —you and the gods!

Synonyms

* (person dressed in a fancy or elegant manner) dandy, dude, toff * (person of high social standing) toff

Derived terms

* ground swell, groundswell * upswell * wind swell

Adjective

(en-adj)

Excellent.

* 2012 , (Ariel Levy), "The Space In Between", The New Yorker , 10 Sep 2012:

Orgasms are swell , but they are not the remedy to every injustice.

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