puff /puf/

1. To blow in whiffs
2. To breathe out vehemently or pantingly
3. To snort scornfully (obsolete)
4. To emit puffs
5. To issue in puffs
6. To make the sound of a puff
7. To go with puffs
8. To swell up (esp with up)

1. To drive with a puff
2. To blow
3. To emit in puffs
4. To play (eg a wind instrument) or smoke (eg a pipe) with puffs
5. To inflate or swell (esp with up)
6. To elate unduly
7. To extol, esp in disingenuous advertisement
8. To put out of breath

1. A sudden, forcible breath, blast or emission
2. A gust or whiff
3. A cloud or quantity of vapour, dust, air, etc, emitted at one time
4. An inhalation of tobacco smoke
5. A sound of puffing
6. A downy pad for powdering (eg one's face)
7. Anything light and porous, or swollen and light
8. A biscuit or cake of puff pastry or the like
9. A part of a fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle (needlework)
10. A quilted bedcover
11. Ostentation
12. Praise intended as, or serving as, advertisement
13. A homosexual (slang; see poof¹)

puffed adjective

1. Distended
2. Inflated
3. (of eg a sleeve) gathered up into rounded ridges
4. Out of breath

puffˈer noun

1. Someone who puffs
2. A steam-engine
3. A steamboat, esp in Scotland a small cargo-carrying boat used in coastal waters
4. Someone employed to bid at an auction to incite others and so run up prices
5. A wheel-lock pistol
6. A puffer fish

puffˈery noun

1. Advertisement disguised as honest praise
2. Puffs collectively

puffˈily adverb

puffˈiness noun

puffˈing noun

puffˈingly adverb

puffˈy adjective

1. Puffed out with air or any soft matter
2. Swollen, engorged
3. Bombastic
4. Coming in puffs
5. Puffing
6. Short-winded

puff adder noun

A thick, venomous African snake (Bitis arietans or related species) that distends its body when irritated

puffˈball noun

1. A gasteromycete fungus (Lycoperdon, etc) with ball-shaped fructification filled when ripe with a powdery mass of spores
2. A tight-waisted full skirt gathered in at the hem to an underskirt, so as to be shaped like a ball
3. Any similar short or long ball-shaped skirt

puffˈbird noun

Any bird of a Central and S American family related to the barbets, with the habit of puffing out the head-feathers

puffˈ-box noun

A box for powder for the face or body and a puff

puffer fish noun

A globefish

puff pastry or US puff paste noun

Pastry composed of thin flaky layers

puffˈ-puff noun

(esp formerly) a child's word for a railway engine or train

puffed out

1. Quite out of breath
2. Inflated, distended, expanded

puffed up

1. Swollen
2. Inflated with pride, presumption, or the like

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