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Puffy

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Adjective

1. bouffant, puffy

being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing

Example Sentences:
'a bouffant skirt'

2. intumescent, puffy, tumescent, tumid, turgid

abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas

Example Sentences:
'hungry children with bloated stomachs'
'he had a grossly distended stomach'
'eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids'
'swollen hands'
'tumescent tissue'
'puffy tumid flesh'

3. gusty, puffy

blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts

Example Sentences:
'puffy off-shore winds'
'gusty winds '

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Puffy

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adjectiveWord forms: puffier or puffiest
1. 
short of breath
2. 
swollen or bloated
a puffy face
3. 
pompous or conceited
4. 
blowing in gusts

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Puffy

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adjectiveWord forms: ˈpuffier or ˈpuffiest
1. 
blowing or coming in puffs
2. 
panting; short-winded
3. 
puffed up; swollen; inflated
4. 
fat; obese

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Puffy

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n.
1.
a. A short forceful exhalation of breath.
b. A short sudden gust of wind.
c. A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.
d. A short sibilant sound produced by a puff.
2. An amount of vapor, smoke, or similar material released in a puff.
3. An act of drawing in and expelling the breath, as in smoking tobacco.
4. A swelling or rounded protuberance.
5. Puff pastry.
6. A light soft pad for applying powder or lotion.
7. A gathered, protruding portion of fabric.
8. A light padded bed covering.
9.
a. An approving or flattering recommendation.
b. A piece of writing, as on the jacket of a book, containing often exaggerated praise, used for promotional purposes.
10. Genetics A localized region of swelling in certain chromosomes indicating the active synthesis of RNA.
v. puffed, puff·ing, puffs
v.intr.
1. To blow in puffs.
2. To come forth in puffs: steam puffing from an engine.
3. To breathe forcefully and rapidly: huffed and puffed up the stairs.
4. To emit puffs.
5. To take puffs on smoking material: puffing on a cigar.
6. To swell or seem to swell, as with pride or air. Often used with up: He puffed up and glared at the importuning questioner.
v.tr.
1. To emit or give forth in puffs.
2. To impel with puffs.
3. To smoke (a cigar, for example).
4. To inflate or distend: The wind puffed out the sail.
5. To fill with pride or conceit: The compliment puffed up his ego.
6. To publicize with often exaggerated praise: publishers who puff their new books.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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