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SWELL (Shh-wuh-ELL)

Function: Super Adjective (An exaggerated description of a noun)

Date: 1845

Derived from the word ‘SUPER’, an emphasis, and the word ‘WELL’, satisfactory, being used together, Super + Well.

1 The feeling of not just good, but so good and satisfactory that there’s a sensation of psychedelic happiness.

Robert E. Lee climbed to his feet, looked upon the battlefield that he was victorious on and yelled to his men, “We are victorious! Let us have a swell evening braiding our horse’s mane!”