v. [f. BE- 2 + PUFF v.] trans. a. To puff or blow out, to swell. b. fig. To puff up, praise greatly. Hence Bepuffed ppl. a.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr., 392. Doggeries never so diplomaed, bepuffed, gas-lighted.
a. 1849. Poe, Wks., 1864, IV. 303. Altering my countenance … from its bepuffed and distorted appearance.
1860. Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., ix. (D.). Even the Lord Mayor—not a Fiction conventionally bepuffed on one day in the year by illustrious friends.
