swellhead
[swel-hed]
/ ˈswɛlˌhɛd /
NOUN
egotist
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Example Sentences
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A. J. Liebling called him “Mr. Swellhead Bigmouth Poet,” while John Ahern, writing in The Boston Globe in 1964, mocked his “vaudeville” verse as “homespun doggerel.”
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2016
