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  • 11puffed up — index inflated (enlarged), proud (conceited), supercilious, turgid Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 12puffed up — [ ,pʌft ʌp ] adjective 1. ) behaving as though you are especially good in some way, and people should admire you 2. ) PUFFY …

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  • 13puffed up — 1. Swollen 2. Inflated with pride, presumption, or the like • • • Main Entry: ↑puff …

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  • 14puffed — [[t]pʌ̱ft[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED: v link ADJ If a part of your body is puffed or puffed up, it is swollen because of an injury or because you are unwell. His face was a little puffed... His mouth was all puffed up where he had taken a rifle butt. Syn …

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  • 15puffed up — ADJ GRADED: oft ADJ with n (disapproval) If you describe someone as puffed up, you disapprove of them because they are very proud of themselves and think that they are very important. → See also puffed He was too puffed up with his own importance …

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  • 16puffed out — adjective a) Panting because of having exercised. He had his cheeks puffed out as if his mouth was full of water. b) inflated Syn: pooped, puffed …

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  • 17puffed — adjective 1》 (also puffed out) Brit. out of breath. 2》 (also puffed up) swollen.     ↘(of part of a garment) gathered so as to have a rounded shape …

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  • 18puffed — be·puffed; puffed; …

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  • 19puffed wheat — noun puffy wheat berries • Hypernyms: ↑cold cereal, ↑dry cereal * * * puffed wheat [puffed wheat] noun [U]( …

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  • 20puffed-up — ▶ adjective SELF IMPORTANT, conceited, arrogant, bumptious, pompous, overbearing; affected, stiff, vain, proud; informal snooty, uppity, uppish. * * * puffed up «PUHFT UHP», adjective. 1. inflated with or as if with air …

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