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Puff

noun
1.
A short light gust of air.  Synonyms: puff of air, whiff.
2.
A light inflated pastry or puff shell.
3.
Exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes).
4.
Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together.  Synonyms: comfort, comforter, quilt.
5.
A soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin.  Synonym: powderpuff.
6.
Thick cushion used as a seat.  Synonyms: hassock, ottoman, pouf, pouffe.
7.
A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke).  Synonyms: drag, pull.  "He took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"
8.
Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth.  Synonym: blow.  "He blew out all the candles with a single puff"
verb
(past & past part. puffed; pres. part. puffing)
1.
Smoke and exhale strongly.  Synonym: whiff.  "Whiff a pipe"
2.
Suck in or take (air).  Synonyms: drag, draw.  "Draw on a cigarette"
3.
Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted.  Synonyms: gasp, heave, pant.
4.
Make proud or conceited.
5.
Praise extravagantly.  Synonym: puff up.
6.
Speak in a blustering or scornful manner.
7.
To swell or cause to enlarge,.  Synonyms: blow up, puff out, puff up.  "Puffed out chests"
8.
Blow hard and loudly.  Synonyms: chuff, huff.
adjective
1.
Gathered for protruding fullness.  Synonym: puffed.



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"Puff" Quotes from Famous Books



... correctly respecting the rifle-shot which announced the arrival of a messenger; a few minutes after the puff of white smoke on the crest of the rise had drifted away, a mounted man rode up to Grant at a gallop. His horse was white with dust and spume, but his ...
— The Cattle-Baron's Daughter • Harold Bindloss
... hun'd tousand million dollars!" shouted Cyd, as the first puff of the welcome wind swelled the sails of ...
— Watch and Wait - or The Young Fugitives • Oliver Optic
... not he?' said the squire, stroking the little Roger's curly head. 'And he can puff four puffs at grandpapa's pipe without being sick, ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... not possible to disentangle the different emotions, the pride, humility, pity and passion, which are excited by a look of happy love or an unexpected caress. To make one's self beautiful, to dress the hair, to excel in talk, to do anything and all things that puff out the character and attributes and make them imposing in the eyes of others, is not only to magnify one's self, but to offer the most delicate homage at the same time. And it is in this latter intention that they are done by lovers; for the essence of love is kindness; ...
— Virginibus Puerisque • Robert Louis Stevenson
... her eyes to squint at an idea that could not well be looked in the face. When she spoke it was to say slyly: "God forbid! But they do go off sometimes in a puff. He looks as if he'd live fer long enough, thank Heaven. But yuh ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 • Various


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