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puffed, ppl. a.|pʌft|
Formely also puft.
[f. puff v.]
1. a. Blown up, inflated; distended by inflation.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 38/2 It is as a blowen bladder, or a puffed thing, as ye tearme it here. 1598Florio, Fogliata, a kinde of thin light puft paste meate made in Italie. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 585 The last is that which is called puft paste, being of all other the most daintiest and pleasantest in taste. 1832Tennyson Pal. Art 63 Where with puffed cheek the belted hunter blew His wreathed buglehorn.
b. Swollen or distended in any way; stuffed or padded so as to swell out; gathered in so as to produce a soft swelling mass, as in costume.
1536in Archæologia (1812) XVI. 24 There must be provided..a cast or puffed Ymage of a princesse apparailled in her Robes of Estate. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 949 Thy huff'd, puff'd, painted, curl'd, purl'd wanton Pride. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 169 They weare great large puffed breeches, gathered close aboue the knees, and each puffe made of a diuers light colour. 1802C. Edgeworth Let. 30 Oct. in C. Colvin M. Edgeworth in France & Switzerland (1979) 21, I always repeat..that puffed slieves are si ridicule..just like our mantua-maker. 1862Ladies' Gaz. Fashion Jan. 8/1 Very small puffed under-sleeves. 1932‘E. M. Delafield’ Thank Heaven Fasting iii. iii. 278, I can remember a lovely pink evening dress you used to wear, with puffed sleeves. 1976National Trust Autumn 25/1 (Advt.), Ladies overblouses..with V-cutaway pointed collar, cuffed and gently puffed sleeves.
c. Of cereal grain: expanded by means of high-pressure steam; used esp. in the names of breakfast foods.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 11/2 Breakfast Cereals..Quaker Puffed Rice—pkt. 0/5½. 1912Collier's 21 Sept. 24/1 Prof. Anderson's process for Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice requires a terrific heat. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 23 Oct. 18/4 At I'Chang I saw the Chinese making puffed rice as for centuries past. 1930B. S. Bronson Nutrition & Food Chem. xvi. 372 Certain grains are sometimes subjected to a very high steam pressure which is suddenly released, expanding the grains and giving the various ‘puffed’ cereals. 1944M. Laski Love on Supertax i. 13 Would it be Puffed Rice or Shredded Wheat this morning? 1957J. Kerr Please don't eat Daisies (1958) 104 They all decide to make sandwiches of boiled egg and puffed wheat. 1972Sci. Amer. Jan. 50/3 Most rats limited to exclusive diets of puffed rice, wheat flakes, shredded wheat and macaroni (all ‘enriched’) were barely able to hold their weaning weight (about 60 grams).
d. Cytology. Of part of a chromosome: see puff n. 2 d. Cf. puffing vbl. n. 3 c.
1938Genetics XXIII. 159 In the giant chromosomes of Sciarra ocellaris Comst. certain particular regions appear greatly expanded or ‘puffed’. 1965J. D. Ebert Interacting Syst. in Development vi. 110 A given section of a chromosome may appear as a sharp band in most tissues, but as a diffuse ‘puff’ in one tissue. Or within the same tissue, a given section may be discrete at one time and ‘puffed’ at another. 1970Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quantitative Biol. XXXV. 534/1 At any particular stage in development only a subset of these sites is actually puffed and the pattern of puffs changes in a very regular and highly coordinated way as development proceeds.
2. fig.
a. Inflated or swollen with vanity, pride, etc. Also puffed-up: cf. puff v. 5.
1553T. Wilson Rhet. 88 b, Puffed presumpcion, passeth not a poynct. 1628Feltham Resolves ii. [i.] lxviii, They are but puft minds, that bubble thus above Inferiours. 1748Thomson Cast. Indol. ii. xxiii, Poor sons of puft-up Vanity, not Fame. 1818Cobbett Pol. Reg. XXXIII. 317 The puffed-up agents of great English manufacturers.
b. Inflated or bombastic in language or style.
1587Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1363/2 With simplicitie of words, and not with puffed eloquence. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women & B. II. i. 15 [He] has something of a puffed and uneasy pomp.
3. Put out of breath by exertion; ‘blown’.
1813Moore Post-bag ii. 60 On his Lordship's entering puffed. 1847Tennyson Princ. iv. 246 Fleet I was of foot:..behind I heard the puff'd pursuer. 1853‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green xviii, You look rather puffed.
Hence puffedness |ˈpʌftnɪs|; also ˈpuffed-upness (nonce-wd.).
1648–60Hexham, Bolsterachtigheydt, Puffednesse, or Swolne up in the cheeks. 1887Chicago Advance 14 July 447 A Quaker lady..gave a sermon in a single sentence ‘Beware of puffedupness’. |