Usually means: Overly inflated sense of importance.
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  1. swelled head: Merriam-Webster
  2. swelled head: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. swelled head: Collins English Dictionary
  4. swelled head: Vocabulary.com
  5. swelled head: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. swelled head: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. swelled head: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. swelled head: Dictionary.com
  9. swelled head: Rhymezone
  10. swelled head: FreeDictionary.org
  11. swelled head: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. swelled head: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. swelled head: Wiktionary

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  1. swelled head: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. swelled head: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. swelled head: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. swelled head: Idioms

(Note: See swelled-headed as well.)

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noun:  (informal) Self-conceit.

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