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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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Public-house Signs
Publicans of the New Testament
Pucelle (La)
Puck or Robin Goodfellow
Pucka
Pudding
Pudding-time
Pudens
Puff
Puff-ball
Puffed Up
Pug
Pugna Porcorum (Battle of the Pigs)
Puisne Judges
Pukwana (North American Indian)
Pull
Pull Bacon (To)
Pull Devil, Pull Baker
Pulling
Pumblechook (Uncle)
Pummel or Pommel