| 单词 | puffy |
| 释义 | puffy (once / 5390 pages) adj Puffy things are swollen or soft, like a big, puffy hairdo or your favorite puffy winter coat that's stuffed full of feathers. Your eyes might be puffy after a really sad movie, and your cat may look puffy when she's hissing at the dog. Big, round clouds are puffy, and so are the white seed heads of dandelions — the puffy balls you can blow on and make a wish. Wind is puffy too, when it blows in little gusts. This is the earliest meaning of puffy, from puff and its Old English root pyffan, "to blow with the mouth." WORD FAMILYpuffy: puffier, puffiest, puffily, puffiness+/puff: puffed, puffer, puffery, puffing, puffingly, puffs, puffy/puffer: puffers/puffery: pufferies/puffing: puffings USAGE EXAMPLESEden was born with puffy, red eyes, which led to her being placed in the special observation wing. Washington Times(Dec 31, 2016) It’s still so puffy,’” said Jihan Thompson, a former magazine editor and a founder of the beauty booking app Swivel. New York Times(Dec 26, 2016) A bearded man wearing a gray fleece, his eyes puffy, approached the table. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) 1adj being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing Syn bouffant big, large above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent 2adj abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids puffy tumid flesh Syn intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid unhealthy not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind 3adj blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts puffy off-shore winds Syn gusty stormy (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion |
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