intransitive. To swell exceedingly; also figurative to be puffed up with pride or swollen with anger. Chiefly in past participle to-bollen n.

Swollen, inflated, gibbous; figurative swollen with pride, puffed up.

Swollen; inflated, puffed up.

figurative. Said of a feeling or mental state such as causes a sense of distension or expansion, or of a person affected with such a feeling, etc…

figurative. Inflated with pride or the like (archaic); more recently,‘exaggerated’.

Inflated or swollen with vanity, pride, etc.; having an inflated sense of one's importance or worth; pompous, overweening. Frequently (now chiefly)…

= inflated, adj. (Usually construed as past participle.)

Big-bellied, corpulent; figurative inflated.

attributive and in other combinations, as bladder chops; bladder-less, bladder-like, bladder-puffed, adjs.

blowing, blustering, swelling.

Inflated, or showing inflation, with pride or the like; proud, haughty; arrogant, puffed up. Of the heart, mind, etc.; †rarely of the person.

Blown up; esp. inflated, puffed up. Also as past participle.

figurative. Swelling with pride or passion; vainglorious, puffed up, haughty. Obsolete.

‘Puffed up’; inflated with, or showing, pride or vain conceit; vain-glorious, proud. Now Scottish colloquial (const. of).

(cf. 6 7b).

Used adjectively in senses of the verb. Also with out, and with defining word prefixed, as far-flown, new-flown.

Inflated, puffed up.

(probably) puffed up (with vanity, etc.) like puff pastry.

Swollen, distended, puffed out.

figurative. Swollen or inflated with pride or conceit; bumptious; also, using inflated language.

Inflated with conceit or vanity; grandiloquent, exaggerated; = overblown, adj.1 1.

Swollen as with a tympany; usually figurative inflated, puffed up; turgid, bombastic; hollow, empty, vain.

affected as with a ‘tympan’ (sense 2); inflated, puffed up.

affected with tumour or swelling, swollen (literal and figurative): const. as adj. or past participle.

inflated as with a tympany, puffed up.

Overgrown in power or importance. Obsolete.

Having an excess of leaven.

figurative. Inflated or puffed-up, ‘windy’; empty, vain, pretentious.

attributive and in other combinations, as tympany gavel (gable, n.1), tympany window (sense 4); tympany-like adj.

Puffed up with pride, conceit, or self-esteem; haughty; blustering. Obsolete.

Caused to swell, swollen. (Construed as past participle or participial adjective) figurative. ‘Inflated’ or ‘puffed up’ with pride or the like. rare.

Loosely used for blubber, adj.: Swollen. figurative. Inflated like a bubble. Obsolete. rare.

Of a sail, the cheeks, etc.: filled with wind, puffed out; fully inflated. Also figurative.

transferred and figurative. Of persons or their attributes: Swollen with pride of rank or wealth; puffed up, pampered.

(in quot. 1772 figurative; cf. tympany, n. 2).

Puffed up or elated with vanity, or false notions.

Affected with pompholyx; (figurative) puffed up.

Inflated with conceit or vanity; overdone, exaggerated; pretentious. Also (of speech, writing, music, etc.): overstated, florid, overindulgent.