puffed up

English

Adjective

puffed up (comparative more puffed up, superlative most puffed up)

1. Inflated.
2. (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

puffed up

1. simple past and past participle of puff up