Dictionary

puffed up en · ADJ

Meanings

1. Inflated.
2. (figuratively) Proud, presumptuous.
   • [T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […] 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:
   • A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.] 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74:
   • Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.

Forms

puffed up en · VERB

Meanings

1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of puff up
   form of puff up