The “big head”; self-conceit. Slang.
1854. Too many have got the sweeny, and the skins are growing tight on their flesh, and even on their bones.—H. C. Kimball at the Mormon Tabernacle, Nov. 26: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ ii. 158.
1857. I feel as Moses said to a certain class that had the sweeny; they were superstitious, and could not bear to hear any men and women prophecy but themselves.—The same, at the Bowery, Salt Lake City, July 26: id., v. 88.
