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bepuff, v.|bɪˈpʌf|
[f. be- 2 + puff v.]
trans. a. To puff or blow out, to swell. b. fig. To puff up, praise greatly. Hence beˈpuffed ppl. a.
1843Carlyle Past & Pr. 392 Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted. a1849Poe Wks. 1864 IV. 303 Altering my countenance..from its bepuffed and distorted appearance. 1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. ix. (D.) Even the Lord Mayor—not a Fiction conventionally bepuffed on one day in the year by illustrious friends. |