puffed up
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
puffed up (comparative more puffed up, superlative most puffed up)
- Inflated.
- (figuratively) Proud, presumptuous.
- Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.
- 1601, Ben Jonson, Poetaster or The Arraignment: […], London: […] [R. Bradock] for M[atthew] L[ownes] […], published 1602, →OCLC, Act V, scene iii, signature L4, recto:
- [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]
Verb[edit]
- simple past and past participle of puff up