- puffed up. The alliteration has proved irresistible to writers over the centuries and so we find many characters puft up with pride, or even, through personification, used of Pride itself: Fy, puft vp pryde, thow is full poysonabill (Robert Henryson Fables a1500).
The clergy seem to have had a particular propensity for being puft with pride and so Quintin Kennedy writes in Ane litil breif tracteit..prevand the real body of Jesu Crist to be present in the sacrament (a1561) of The pestilent preacheouris puft vp with vayne glore .