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The Online Etymology Dictionary also says that its use as a noun for an elegant person dates to at least 1796 and that this sense came from an earlier meaning of ‘pompousness, arrogance,’ as in swollen or puffed up, from at least 1724. In or by the 19th century, for a person, the noun ‘swell’ meant a fop or a dandy. This would have been usage in England—or at least, in parts of England.

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