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Definition of Puffed
1. Adjective. Gathered for protruding fullness. "Puff sleeves"
Definition of Puffed
1. Verb. (past of puff) ¹
2. Adjective. inflated or swollen ¹
3. Adjective. consisting of a puff ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of cereals) expanded by the use of steam ¹
5. Adjective. (informal) Same as '''puffed out'''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Puffed
1. puff [v] - See also: puff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puffed
Literary usage of Puffed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by American Committee of Revision (1881)
"18 Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you. 19 But I will come
to you shortly, if the Lord will, and will know, not the speech of them ..."
2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"We sometimes see and hear blown, bloated, and puffed up, in nearly the ...
Haven is another sense of blown or puffed up, but never applied to a herring. ..."
3. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"WHICH RECORDS THE RISE AND RENOWN OF A MILITARY COMMANDER, SHOWING THAT A MAN,
LIKE A BLADDER, MAY BE puffed UP TO GREATNESS BY MERE WIND ; TOGETHER "WITH ..."
4. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"Gates is puffed . rr ° J . But the most dangerous ground upon which Congress
ventured during the whole course of the war was connected with the dark ..."
5. The American Revolution by John Fiske (1891)
"... Americans out would have succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations.
Gates is puffed . " ° J . But the most dangerous ground upon which Congress ..."
6. Rice in Human Nutrition by Bienvenido O. Juliano (1993)
"puffed waxy and low- amylose rices tend to have a higher puffed volume than
intermediate- to high-amylose rices only when grains are incompletely parboiled ..."
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