Puffed_up vs Lofty - What's the difference?
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To be proud
(puff up)
high, tall, having great height or stature
* {{quote-book
, year=1862
, author=George Borrow
, title=Wild Wales
, chapter=98
idealistic, implying over-optimism
* 2013 , Delme Parfitt in Wales Online'', ''Cardiff City 1 - 0 Swansea City: Steven Caulker heads Bluebirds to South Wales derby win (3 November 2013)
extremely proud; arrogant; haughty
* F. Harrison
Puffed_up is a related term of lofty.
As an adjective puffed_up
is to be proud.As a verb puffed_up
is (puff up).As a proper noun lofty is
(informal) nickname for a tall (usually male) person.puffed_up
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Since he was elected school prefect, he's become really puffed up .
Verb
(head)lofty
English
Adjective
(er)citation, passage=On my left was a river, which came roaring down from a range of lofty mountains right before me to the south-east.}}
- a lofty bed
- a lofty goal
- A goal from Steven Caulker, just after the hour mark, was enough to hand victory to Malky Mackay's men, with Swansea falling some way short of the lofty standards they have set previously at this level.
- that lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers