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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Puffed; praised.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
bepuff .
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Examples
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I can imagine with what scorn the idiotically puffed and bepuffed magnates of the bank would have regarded us had they known of our discussion.
Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude Austin Bidwell
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It was Harriet, the wife, who spoke -- a large, florid woman with a short upper lip, and a bewilderment of bepuffed light hair.
Oh, Money! Money! 1894
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Condescendingly the bepuffed head threw an approving nod in her direction.
Oh, Money! Money! 1894
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Doggeries never so gold-plated, Doggeries never so escutcheoned, Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted, continue Doggeries, and must take the fate of such.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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We started from Leghorn in an English boat, highly recommended, and as little deserving of such praise as many another bepuffed article.
At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe Margaret Fuller 1830
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Altering my countenance, therefore, in a moment, from its bepuffed and distorted appearance, to an expression of arch and coquettish benignity, I gave my lady a pat on the one cheek, and a kiss on the other, and without saying one syllable
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Altering my countenance, therefore, in a moment, from its bepuffed and distorted appearance, to an expression of arch and coquettish benignity, I gave my lady a pat on the one cheek, and a kiss on the other, and without saying one syllable, (Furies!
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. II 1840
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