Puff Up

Definition: Puff Up

Puff Up

Verb

1. Make larger or distend; "The estimates were puffed up".

2. To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs".

3. Become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger; "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son".

4. Praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Puff Up

Vanity

Render vain; Adjective: inspire with vanity; Noun: inflate, puff up, turn up, turn one's head.

Crosswords: Puff Up

I never faint because I am not sure that I will fall gracefully and I never use smelling salts because they puff up the eyes. (Witness for the Prosecution; writing credit: Agatha Christie; Larry Marcus)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Arabic 

‏أطفأ بالنفخ. (various references)

Bulgarian 

карам да се възгордее (inflate), карам да се надува, подувам се (bloat, swell, swell out, swell up, tumefy), подпухвам (bloat, swell), излизам на кълба (puff out), издувам се (belly, draw, heave, puff out, swell). (various references)

Czech

nadmout (fill). (various references)

Dutch

poffen (puffing), opzwellen (swell). (various references)

Esperanto

pufiĝi. (various references)

French

enfler. (various references)

German

plustern (fluff up, puff out), aufplustern (blow up, exaggerate, fluff, puff out, ruffle up), aufblasen (bloat, blow out, blow up, inflate, inflation, puff out, to bloat, to blow up, to inflate), anschwellen (bloat, bulge, engorge, rise, surge, swell, swelled, swelling, swollen, to bulge). (various references)

Hungarian

felfúj (balloon, blew, blow up, blown, distend, inflate, to balloon, to ballyho, to bloat, to blow, to blow up a football tight, to distend, to expand, to hove, to inflate, to puff, to puff up, to pump up). (various references)

Indonesian

membusungkan (pump up), membusung (be distended, bloated). (various references)

Italian

gonfiare (bloat, blow, blow up, exaggerate, inflate, pad, plump, puff out, pump up, swell). (various references)

Manx

sheidey magh (puff out), lhieeeney. (various references)

Pig Latin

uffpay upay

Portuguese

tornar‐setumefacto, encher-se de orgulho. (various references)

Russian 

надменный (aloof, arrogant, bloated aristocrat, bumptious, cavalier, haughty, high and mighty, hoity toity, lofty, proud, proud-spirited, proud-stomached, puffed up, snippy, stand-offish, supercilious, toplofty, toploty, upstage, wrapped in cellophane). (various references)

Scottish

at (become tumid, becoming tumid, swell). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

naduvati (blow up, distend, inflate, puff, puff at), naduvan (aureate, hot air, inflated, orotund, puffed, puffed up), nabreknuti (swell). (various references)

Spanish

hinchar (belly, bloat, bulk, dig, fill, inflate, play up, push in, swell). (various references)

Swedish

driva upp (force up, inflate). (various references)

Turkish

kabartmak (blister, bloat, bloat up, fluff, fluff out, fluff up, puff, raise, roughen, roughen up, ruffle, scribble, tease, vesicate), göğsünü kabartmak, şişirmek (bag, balloon, bloat, bloat up, blow up, bulk, distend, embroider, exaggerate, expand, fill, heave, heighten, inflate, overcharge, pad, pad out, pile it on, puff, pump, pump up, put it on, put it on thick, run up, swell out, swell up, tumefy), aşırı övmek, öve öve bitirememek (beslaver, cry up, praise to the skies, puff, rhapsodize, rhapsodize over smth., sing smb.'s praise, sing the praises of), çıkmak (ascend, break out, break through, climb, come about, come off, come on, come out, come to a head, come up, crop out, date, date up, detach, drop out, emanate, emerge, erupt, escalate, eventuate, exit, extricate oneself, extrude, flirt, get off, go for, go forth, go off, go out, go together, go with, grow out of, grow up, hatch, have it's source in, issue, jut, jut out, keep company with, knock about, knock around, launch, launch out, move out, occur, originate, peep, peep out, photograph, point, present oneself, prove, puff out, pull out, pullulate, quit, rise, rub off, rub out, sally forth, sally out, secede, separate, shoot out, spoon, spring, stem, step out, step up, stick, stick out, take it's source from, take out, take to, walk out, walk out of, walk out with, well forth, work out). (various references)

Ukrainian

підніматися клубами. (various references)

intumesco, sufflabo, sufflantem, sufflatorium, sufflaveris, sufflavit. (various references)

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