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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Puffin :: Puffin (n.) The puffball.
Blow :: Blow (v. t.) To inflate, as with pride; to puff up..
Fozy :: Fozy (a.) Spongy; soft; fat and puffy.
Efflation :: Efflation (n.) The act of filling with wind; a breathing or puffing out; a puff, as of wind..
Puff :: Puff (n.) A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff..
Blow :: Blow (v. i.) To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..
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-legged :: Puff-legged (a.) Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
Swell :: Swell (v. i.) To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride..
Strout :: Strout (v. i.) To swell; to puff out; to project.
Hagdon :: Hagdon (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater..
Smoke :: Smoke (v. t.) To inhale and puff out the smoke of, as tobacco; to burn or use in smoking; as, to smoke a pipe or a cigar..
Swell :: Swell (v. t.) To raise to arrogance; to puff up; to inflate; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness..
Pubble :: Pubble (a.) Puffed out, pursy; pudgy; fat..
Tomnoddy :: Tomnoddy (n.) A sea bird, the puffin..
Puff :: Puff (n.) To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance..
Shearwater :: Shearwater (n.) Any one of numerous species of long-winged oceanic birds of the genus Puffinus and related genera. They are allied to the petrels, but are larger. The Manx shearwater (P. Anglorum), the dusky shearwater (P. obscurus), and the greater shearwater (P. major), are well-known species of the North Atlantic. See Hagdon..
Fuffy :: Fuffy (a.) Light; puffy.
Tumid :: Tumid (a.) Swelling in sound or sense; pompous; puffy; inflated; bombastic; falsely sublime; turgid; as, a tumid expression; a tumid style..
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