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puffed up

adjective more puffed up · most puffed up

  1. Inflated.
  2. figuratively Proud, presumptuous. Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of puff up

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@misc{puffed_up_2026,
  title = {puffed up},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/puffed%20up},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}