(be) puffed up with pride
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puffed out with — filled with pride … English contemporary dictionary
puff up with pride — puff (up) with pride ◇ When you puff (up) with pride or when you are puffed (up) with pride, you are very proud and stand or sit up straighter because of it. When his daughter s name was announced as the winner, he puffed up with pride. • • •… … Useful english dictionary
puff with pride — puff (up) with pride ◇ When you puff (up) with pride or when you are puffed (up) with pride, you are very proud and stand or sit up straighter because of it. When his daughter s name was announced as the winner, he puffed up with pride. • • •… … Useful english dictionary
puffed up — 1. Swollen 2. Inflated with pride, presumption, or the like • • • Main Entry: ↑puff … Useful english dictionary
pride — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Sense of self worth Nouns 1. pride, hauteur; dignity, self respect, self esteem, self sufficiency, reserve. 2. (sympton of pride) arrogance, insolence; ostentation; vanity, vainglory, crest, airs, high… … English dictionary for students
Pride — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Pride >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 dignity dignity self respect mens sibi conscia recti =>(Vergil) GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 pride pride Sgm: N 2 haughtiness haughtiness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 2 high not … English dictionary for students
pride — prideful, adj. pridefully, adv. pridefulness, n. prideless, adj. pridelessly, adv. /pruyd/, n., v., prided, priding. n. 1. a high or inordinate opinion of one s own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or… … Universalium
puffed up — Synonyms and related words: aggrandized, aggressively self confident, amplified, ballyhooed, biggety, bloated, bloated with pride, blown up, bumptious, chesty, cocky, conceited, dilated, disproportionate, distended, dropsical, edematous, elated,… … Moby Thesaurus
proud — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. See pride. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Having a creditable self respect] Syn. self respecting, self sufficient, self reliant, independent, honorable, principled, dignified, stately, noble, lordly,… … English dictionary for students
swell — /swel/, v., swelled, swollen or swelled, swelling, n., adj. v.i. 1. to grow in bulk, as by the absorption of moisture or the processes of growth. 2. Path. to increase abnormally in size, as by inflation, distention, accumulation of fluids, or the … Universalium
