1. puffed up - Adjective
2. puffed up - Verb
Inflated.
(figuratively) Proud, presumptuous.
Since he was elected school prefect, he’s become really puffed up.
puffed up
simple past and past participle of puff up
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. Camille Paglia
Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called 'success' with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings. Stefan Zweig
I have also reviewed my own financial obligations, which have puffed up recently like a hammered thumb. Woody Allen
And one of those plants, yellow and full of milky juice in pale stems, now puffed up with air, discharged only air from its hollow shoots, only fluff in the form of feathery, milky balls, strewn by the breeze and softly pervading the azure silence. Bruno Schulz
... if you look around the Christian faith, you won't find many of those proud people who are puffed up in their own 'fleshly' wisdom. Ray Comfort
Bake it in the oven for 15 minutes or until puffed up and set, then cool it for a few minutes and gently remove the tarts from the muffin tin. Source: Internet