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  • adjective informal Both swell and elegant.

Etymologies

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Blend of swell and elegant

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Examples

  • Midway through the charming, inebriated song, in which two "swellegant" party pals swap banter, dish on guests and form a dipsomaniacal camaraderie, Crosby croons to Sinatra with his distinctive "ba ba ba boom" and Sinatra jokes, "Don't dig that kind of crooning, chum."

    Kim Morgan: Christmas With Crosby, Bing 2009

  • A soigné dresser and an eager consumer of the best life had to offer, Bobby was often accused of being too "swellegant" for words; but although he drank the best champagne and spent half of the year at his villa in the South of France, a stone's throw from the exclusive Moulin de Mougins restaurant, his three favorite words in the culinary legerdemain were "macaroni and cheese."

    Bobby Short King of Pop 2005

  • Anyways, I can't even really remember how that first evening came to an end, but after a good night's sleep in my swellegant hotel room came my first visit to the book fair, a wee double-header interview thing -- with Finnish writer J. Pekka Mäkelä being interviewed by Nora and meself being interviewed by Nina -- more photographs and a chilled-out interview (over beer, of course,) with Toni Jerman for Tähtivaeltaja.

    Famous in Finland, Fixture in France Hal Duncan 2009

  • Anyways, I can't even really remember how that first evening came to an end, but after a good night's sleep in my swellegant hotel room came my first visit to the book fair, a wee double-header interview thing -- with Finnish writer J. Pekka Mäkelä being interviewed by Nora and meself being interviewed by Nina -- more photographs and a chilled-out interview (over beer, of course,) with Toni Jerman for Tähtivaeltaja.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • But once Peggy realized what Allison was implying about the nature of her relationship with Don, the woman who went from dowdy bangs to swellegant flip 'do immediately turned firm and cold.

    'Mad Men': Who was this week's empowered heroine -- Allison or Peggy? 2010

  • If you are in advertising or graphics design, you'll know that a nod from Communications Arts is, well, pretty swellegant.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2007

  • If you are in advertising or graphics design, you'll know that a nod from Communications Arts is, well, pretty swellegant.

    Allan Jenkins' Desirable Roasted Coffee 2007

  • At least you're WILLING to do something unusal for you, and rocking your LC slingbacks will make you feel so swellegant, you're bound to want to continue in that vein.

    Miss Matchy And One Bad Hairdo For Men PeaceBang 2006

  • If you're not lucky enough to have caught Cook and Feinstein's recent stint at the latter's swellegant cabaret venue, here's your chance to hear two of the American songbook's foremost champions matching wits, lovingly.

    USATODAY.com News 2011

  • He's 'throwing a ball tonight' - and you're all invited, to a 'swellegant' theatrical party spanning the life of Broadway's greatest wit, the irrepressible

    BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content 2010

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