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Where does “unpuffed” come from?

unpuffed (English) comes from English puffed, from English -ed, from Middle English -ed, from Old English -ed — formed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...

unpuffed (English): Not puffed

Definitions

  1. Not puffed

Ancestry of “unpuffed”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Englishpuffedsimple past tense and past participle of puff;...
2English-edUsed to form past tenses of verbs. In...
3Middle English-edAlternative form of -hede
4Old English-edformed into the likeness of, made into, shaped...
Every word from Old English -ed →