puffedadj.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Cock & Fox l. 593 in Poems (1981) 26 Fy, puft vp pryde, thow is full poysonabill.

1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. sig. A.vj Who is more fyerce & braggische to shewe forth a litel vayn coning then those puftup papistis with pryde and vaynglory?

1542 T. Becon Newes out of Heauen sig. Dv Your herte is..arrogant, puffed vp, proud hatyng God, louyng it selfe, full of hypocrisy and all euell.

1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique iii. f. 88^v Puffed presumpcion, passeth not a poynct.

1587 W. Rankins Mirrour of Monsters sig. 18^b Dissention..procureth such hurlie burley, & outragious swelling of puffed minds, as present nothing but slaughter.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxviii. 193 They are but puft mindes, that bubble thus aboue Inferiours.

1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) ii. 207 (note) A creature unlettered, who..pimpeth to the pleasures of such vain, braggart, puft Nobility.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvi. 286 If such a puffed up empty human Bladder strutting in princely Robes, justly moves one's Derision, surely in the Habit of a Priest it must raise our Scorn. View more context for this quotation

1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence ii. xxiii Poor sons of puft-up Vanity, not Fame.

1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 317 The puffed-up agents of great English manufacturers.

1861 L. Shore Hannibal I. v. i. 106 This huge overthrow Hannibal's puffed-up brother has brought on us.

1923 C. G. Dawes First Year Budget of U.S. 17 There floats in as his new chief a puffed-up political appointee full of ambition, full of conceit, full of a desire to impress his little pitiful personality upon the country.

1954 T. A. G. Hungerford Sowers of Wind 264 That's the trouble with you puffed-up bastards—you never know when to call it a day with your big ideas about yourselves.

1992 Financial Times 22 Feb. p. xviii/8 Botero's portrait of Franco, showing the general as just another puffed up tinpot Latin American dictator.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1363/2 With simplicitie of words, and not with puffed eloquence.

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 2 a The superfluous affectation of my prophane puft vp phrase.

1810 M. F. Johnson Orig. Sonnets To Public Though no puff'd memoir or vignette reveal That I am old or young.

1847 L. Hunt Men, Women, & Bks. II. i. 15 [He] has something of a puffed and uneasy pomp.

1934 E. Pound Hell in Criterion Apr. 387 Binyon has got rid of pseudo-magniloquence, of puffed words.

1949 R. Flatter Hamlet's Father xii. 119 He [sc. Osric] is usually played as a nincompoop, and his puffed-up language and circumlocutionary verbosity are doubtless comic.

1993 Atlantic Sept. 103/1 In response to puffed-up or misleading descriptions..efforts are under way to evaluate B & Bs objectively.

1536 in Archaeologia (1812) 16 24 There must be provided..a cast or puffed Ymage of a princesse apparailled in her Robes of Estate.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. D.ii All thy puft sailes shall fil, loke well about.

1562 A. Brooke tr. M. Bandello Tragicall Hist. Romeus & Iuliet f. 12 Whence she with puffed cheeke shall blowe a blast so shrill Of my disprayse, that with the noyse Uerona shall she fill.

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vi. f. 74 Their voices stil are hoarse and harsh, their throtes haue puffed goawles.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry (new ed.) f. 45^v Tom Pyeper, hath houen and puffed vp cheekes, if cheese be so houen, make Cis to seeke creekes.

?1617 J. Taylor Jack a Lent sig. C^v The light puft-vp foure-corner'd Bun.

1645 J. A. Rivers Sad Condition Distracted Kingdome 6 Our puft up sailes Are driven as well by rough as prosperous gales.

1684 T. Otway Atheist i. 1 A broad, shining, pufft, Bacon-face, like a Cherubim.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. i. xv. 39 The Pericarpium..varies..in being Turbinate..Inflate, puffed, as in Cardiospermum and Staphylæa.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. D3 Inflated, or puffed up like a blown bladder.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art ix, in Poems (new ed.) 71 Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blew His wreathèd buglehorn.

1845 F. Douglass Narr. Life F. Douglass x. 97 My puffed-out eye and blood-covered face moved her to tears.

1872 C. Darwin Expression Emotions Man & Animals xi. 264 A peacock or a turkey-cock strutting about with puffed-up feathers, is sometimes said to be an emblem of pride.

1916 ‘K. Mansfield’ Jrnl. Mar. (1977) 70 It's a case of either standing on your feet or lying in comfort under a puffed-up eiderdown.

1971 S. Hill Strange Meeting i. 77 The late evening sun glittering on their instruments and ruddying the puffed-out faces of the players.

1986 C. Phillips State of Independence 25 Her face was puffed.

2005 New Yorker 14 Feb. 52/1 The dish of parchment-roasted mushrooms, served in a puffed-up packet and opened tableside.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 169 They weare great large puffed breeches, gathered close aboue the knees, and each puffe made of a diuers light colour.

a1637 B. Jonson Magnetick Lady iv. 46 in Wks. (1640) III Tell truth, And shame the She-Man-Divell in puff'd sleeves.

1707 Boston News-let. 22 Sept. 2/2 (advt.) An Indian Man..of low Stature, a round well favour'd face, short Hair: having on a round pufft and quilted Cap.

a1798 T. Pennant Tour on Continent (1948) 51 They are in white marble; their dress richly carved;..puffed and slasht sleeves, and ruffs on their necks.

1802 C. Edgeworth Let. 30 Oct. in C. Colvin M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 21 I always repeat..that puffed slieves are si ridicule..just like our mantua-maker.

1859 Harper's Mag. May 806/2 A good silk..with double skirts of tulle, looped with flowers, a puffed tulle berthe, and a tulle vail.

1899 T. Eaton & Co. Catal. Christmas 3/3 in G. de T. Glazebrook et al. Shopper's View of Canada's Past (1969) 63 Jewel case..puffed satin lining.

1932 ‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting iii. iii. 278 I can remember a lovely pink evening dress you used to wear, with puffed sleeves.

1941 E. Ferber Saratoga Trunk iii. 49 He wore no brilliant turban, no puffed satin pantaloons.

1983 Women's Wear Daily (Nexis) 28 Feb. ny2 The golden Donegal tweed wool, nip-waisted dress gets puffed shoulders.

2002 Inquirer Mag. 21 Apr. 75/1 (caption) Cotton drawnwork blouse with drawstring neck and puffed sleeves.

1904 Decatur (Illinois) Rev. 29 Sept. 4/3 With mouths bulging full of puffed rice, hot cross buns..and other eatables the women were trying to tell each other about the wonderful sights in the palace of agriculture.

1908 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. 3/4 The Quaker puffed Wheat Berries, per package..5c.

1912 Collier's 21 Sept. 24/1 Prof. Anderson's process for Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice requires a terrific heat.

1930 B. S. Bronson Nutrition & Food Chem. xvi. 372 Certain grains are sometimes subjected to a very high steam pressure which is suddenly released, expanding the grains and giving the various ‘puffed’ cereals.

1944 M. Laski Love on Supertax i. 13 Would it be Puffed Rice or Shredded Wheat this morning?

1997 New Internationalist May 21/1 Her husband sells bhel-puri—a spicy snack made from puffed rice—on the streets.

1938 Genetics 23 159 In the giant chromosomes of Sciarra ocellaris Comst. certain particular regions appear greatly expanded or ‘puffed’.

1965 J. D. Ebert Interacting Syst. in Devel. vi. 110 A given section of a chromosome may appear as a sharp band in most tissues, but as a diffuse ‘puff’ in one tissue. Or within the same tissue, a given section may be discrete at one time and ‘puffed’ at another.

1970 Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. 35 534/1 At any particular stage in development only a subset of these sites is actually puffed and the pattern of puffs changes in a very regular and highly coordinated way as development proceeds.

2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 7012/2 The transversely banded chromosomes allow specific chromosomal regions to be identified... The transcriptionally active regions are blown-up, or puffed.