puffed up

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, […]

puffed up

1. simple past and past participle of puff up