Definition of puff

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Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..

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Puff :: Puff (n.) a kind of light pastry.
Bloat :: Bloat (v. t.) To inflate; to puff up; to make vain.
Vent :: Vent (v. i.) To snuff; to breathe or puff out; to snort.
Bollen :: Bollen (a.) Swollen; puffed out.
Baggy :: Baggy (a.) Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks..
Bloated :: Bloated (p. a.) Distended beyond the natural or usual size, as by the presence of water, serum, etc.; turgid; swollen; as, a bloated face. Also, puffed up with pride; pompous..
Puff :: Puff (v. t.) To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up..
Bepuffed :: Bepuffed (a.) Puffed; praised.
Lycoperdon :: Lycoperdon (n.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like..
Concentrator :: Concentrator (n.) An apparatus for the separation of dry comminuted ore, by exposing it to intermittent puffs of air..
Bellied :: Bellied (a.) Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied..
Whiff :: Whiff (v. i.) To emit whiffs, as of smoke; to puff..
Inflation :: Inflation (n.) The state of being puffed up, as with pride; conceit; vanity..
Swelling :: Swellfish (n.) Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon..
Bottle-nose :: Bottle-nose (n.) The puffin.
Flatus :: Flatus (n.) A breath; a puff of wind.
Porpoise :: Porpoise (n.) Any small cetacean of the genus Phocaena, especially P. communis, or P. phocaena, of Europe, and the closely allied American species (P. Americana). The color is dusky or blackish above, paler beneath. They are closely allied to the dolphins, but have a shorter snout. Called also harbor porpoise, herring hag, puffing pig, and snuffer..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..
Puffin :: Puffin (n.) A sort of apple.
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