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puffy, a.|ˈpʌfɪ|
[f. puff v. or n. + -y.]
1. a. Of wind: Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts, gusty; also, characterized by such wind. b. Of a person or animal: Easily caused to puff, or breathe quick and hard; short-winded. c. Of a sound: Dull, muffled.
1616T. Adams Soul's Sickness Wks. 1861 I. 486 He lives at a high sail, that the puffy praises of his neighbours may blow him into the enchanted island, vainglory. 1799J. Robertson Agric. Perth 222 The former gives them [horses] better wind; the latter renders them puffy. 1831Brewster Nat. Magic ix. (1833) 220 The glass loses its power of ringing..and emits only a disagreeable and puffy sound. 1844J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & W. i, I am too puffy to enjoy hill⁓climbing. 1894Times 25 July 11 A strong puffy off-shore wind was blowing.
2. a. Swollen or inclined to swell, by or as by puffing or inflation; turgid, tumid, puffed out; of persons, fat, corpulent: usually also implying soft, flabby, wanting in firmness.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 12 House-Spiders..have a very puffy light body of an Oval figure. 1676Wiseman Chirurg. Treat. i. xxvii. 143 Emphysema is a light puffy Tumour easily yielding to the pressure of your fingers. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. vi. 47 Puffy Land, which naturally swells up, instead of subsiding. 1828Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1846 I. 340/2 The oriental train and puffy turban. 1865M. E. Braddon Sir Jasper xiv, Blanche Harding lounged in the downiest and puffiest chair by the fire in her spacious bedroom. 1874Wood Nat. Hist. 278 The [owl's] round, puffy head, the little hooked beak just appearing from the downy plumage. 1899Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 3/2 The shoulder deserted by the puffy sleeve.
b. Having the quality of puffing up, or causing to swell as if inflated. rare—1.
1718Rowe tr. Lucan ix. 1348 The puffy Poison spreads, and heaves around, Till all the Man is in the Monster drown'd.
3. fig. Having an empty or unsubstantial air of importance; puffed up, vain, swelling, inflated, turgid, bombastic. rare.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie, Lect. prorsus indignos, Passe on ye vaine fantasticke troupe Of puffie youths. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §18. 321 A puffy conceit and opinion of knowledge. 1679Dryden Troil. & Cress. Pref., Ess. (Ker) I. 224 He distinguished not the blown puffy style from true sublimity. 1751G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists iii. (1754) Pref., Puffy Pretensions to extraordinary Revelations. 1853–8Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 157 A rather puffy and consequential man.
4. Comb., as puffy-bodied, puffy-cheeked, puffy-eyed, puffy-faced, puffy-looking adjs.; † puffy-light v. trans. (obs. nonce-wd.), ? to give a puffy lightness to.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey i. x. 28 Being..intermedled by the plow with the soyle, it puffie-lights and party colours the same. 1851Fraser's Mag. Mar. 360/2 A puffy-faced little man, with an overgrown body. 1859Atkinson Walks & Talks (1892) 260 One of the puffy-bodied, pasty-faced Sunbury lads. 1922H. Crane Let. 27 July (1965) 94 The Man Ray photo of J...is really not a good resemblance. The face is not so puffy-looking. 1926V. Woolf Writer's Diary (1953) 89 In trotted a little puffy-cheeked cheerful old man [sc. Hardy]. 1929Sunday Dispatch 20 Jan. 16/3 You watch the boy growing puffy-eyed and soft on his fast living. 1957J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 170 Every⁓body looked like a broken-down movie extra, a withered starlet; disenchanted stuntmen,..puffy-eyed motel blondes..a lemon lot. |