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Definition of Puff up
1. Verb. Make larger or distend. "The estimates were puffed up"
2. Verb. To swell or cause to enlarge,. "Did his feet puff up?"; "Puffed out chests"
Generic synonyms: Intumesce, Swell, Swell Up, Tumefy, Tumesce
Derivative terms: Puffer
3. Verb. Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger. "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son"
4. Verb. Praise extravagantly. "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
Definition of Puff up
1. Verb. To inflate with air. ¹
2. Verb. To swell due to injury or illness. ¹
3. Verb. To become proud. (Often written as '''puffed up with pride.''') ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puff Up
Literary usage of Puff up
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A concise Anglo-Saxon dictionary for the use of students by John R. Clark Hall (1916)
"... disperse, scatter, to blow to pieces, blast, scatter, M : puff up, open,
dilate : multiply, ... puff up ..."
2. A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged from the American Dictionary by Noah Webster (1833)
"In put into a bag, swell, puff up. Back, n. the hinder pan, rear, thick part.
Boch'-e-lor-ship, n. the state of a bachelor. Back, vt to mount, second, ..."
3. Letters on Religious Subjects, Written by Divers Friends, Deceased: First by John Kendall (1831)
"... Accumulated knowledge is apt to puff up, and that beautiful simplicity of
manners into which truth leads, may be unhappily departed from. ..."
4. Paul Richards' Book of Breads, Cakes, Pastries, Ices and Sweetmeats by Paul Richards (1907)
"The paste should puff up like a rose. Fill with a little jelly, and decorate with
royal icing. 395—PARISIENNES. Take puff paste which has got only four ..."
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