puffed-upnessn.
/ˌpʌftˈʌpnəs/, U.S. /ˌpəftˈəpnəs/ The quality or state of being puffed-up (literal and figurative).
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1887 Chicago Advance 14 July 447 A Quaker lady..gave a sermon in a single sentence ‘Beware of puffedupness’.
1891 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Florentine Nights 266 We find only petty huckstering of trifles, self-reflecting shallowness,..pedantic puffed-upness which threatens to burst for joy, when they [sc. commentators] can convict the poor poet of an antiquarian, geographical, or chronological error.
1999 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 25 Nov. h2 Jive turkey, maybe, but not an honest-to-goodness gobbler in all its puffed-up-ness.
2004 Express (Nexis) 12 Mar. 55 The ultimate literary biography, in which one puffed-up writer lacerates the intolerable puffed-upness of another.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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