swole
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\n \n Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 7, 2024 is:\n \n
\n \n\n swole • \\SWOHL\\ • adjective
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Someone described as swole is extremely muscular. In other words, they have a physique enhanced by bodybuilding exercises.
\n\n// Her New Year\u2019s resolution was to get swole, so she signed up with a personal trainer and committed to working out every day.
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\u201cIt\u2019s possible to build muscle in a couple of half-hour workouts a week, provided you train both smart and hard. Building muscle has a lot more benefits than just making you look swole, though, for both men and women. Having more muscle and strength makes everyday activities, be that carrying shopping loads or lifting your suitcase into an overhead compartment, easier.\u201d \u2014 Rachel Hosie, Business Insider, 25 Mar. 2024
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If someone said you were swole, would you know how to respond? If you\u2019re unfamiliar with the word, you might think your face is swollen or check yourself for signs of puffiness. If you know the word, however, you\u2019d know you\u2019re in fact looking quite fit and muscular and might respond with a simple \u201cThank you for noticing.\u201d Often used on social media, swole has come to be a complimentary term for those with a physique enhanced by weightlifting and bodybuilding exercises. The word isn\u2019t exactly new\u2014swole goes back to Middle English as a past tense and past participle of swell meaning \u201cto enlarge,\u201d \u201cto bulge,\u201d or \u201cto puff out\u201d (literally and figuratively). In the late 1980s the sense of \u201chaving well-defined muscles\u201d emerged as a regional variant of swollen in African American English. Rapper Ice-T used the adjective in his 1991 song \u201cThe Tower\u201d: \u201cAnd hit the weight pile / The brothers was swole.\u201d In addition, it was applied as a verb to describe becoming ripped or cut, as when the late Tupac Shakur applied it in his 1997 song \u201cWhen I Get Free\u201d: \u201c\u2026 did push-ups till I swole up.\u201d
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