puffed up

comparative more puffed up · superlative most puffed up

1. Inflated.
2. figurativelyProud, presumptuous.

   Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.

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   [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

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of puff up