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swell adjective good; attractive; stylish UK, 1812 A key piece of slang for more than a century, eventually displaced by COOL.- “Morning, Doc,” the attendant said, “swell car you got there.” — Terry Southern, Flash and Filigree, p. 29, 1958
- “Harald’s a swell gent,” she went on, in a different voice, more thoughtful and serious. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 22, 1963
- He ain’t no swell guy and he never was. — Eugene Boe (Compiler), The Wit & Wisdom of Archie Bunker, pp. 19–20, 1971
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