See Also: Sievers' law(dictionary)
swell-(dictionary)
SWELL(medicine)
swell(1)(dictionary)
swell(2)(dictionary)
swell 3, adjective(dictionary)
swell 2, noun(dictionary)
swell 1, verb(dictionary)
Swell - Sailing(gambling)
swell-headed(dictionary)

swell-headed (oh) and Sievers' law (iou)


swell-headed (oh)



adj AmE informal
thinking that you are more important or clever than you really are
-synonym bigheaded bigheaded

Sievers' law (iou)



Sievers' law noun phr. M20.
[Eduard Sievers (1850-1932), German philologist.]
Philology. A rule stating that in Indo-European, (post-consonantal) unaccented i and u before a vowel were consonantal after a short syllable and vocalic after a long syllable. Also Sievers-Edgerton law.