"puffed up" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more puffed up [comparative], most puffed up [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} puffed up (comparative more puffed up, superlative most puffed up)
  1. Inflated.
    Sense id: en-puffed_up-en-adj-xDeVuVKk
  2. (figuratively) Proud, presumptuous. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-puffed_up-en-adj-c4R8TnSl Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 79 10 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 12 78 10

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} puffed up
  1. simple past and past participle of puff up Tags: form-of, participle, past Form of: puff up
    Sense id: en-puffed_up-en-verb-nt9Z5YsK
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          "text": "Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.",
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          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-vp Lumpe of Barmy froth, […]",
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