/ · 1894 Brewer’s · P · Puffed Up
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Conceited; elated with conceit or praise; filled with wind. A puff is a tartlet with a very light or puffy crust.
“That no one of you be puffed up one against another.”—1 Cor. iv. 6.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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