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Puffy   /pˈəfi/   Listen
Puffy

adjective
1.
Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing.  Synonym: bouffant.
2.
Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas.  Synonyms: intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid.  "He had a grossly distended stomach" , "Eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids" , "Swollen hands" , "Tumescent tissue" , "Puffy tumid flesh"
3.
Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts.  Synonym: gusty.  "Gusty winds "






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"Puffy" Quotes from Famous Books



... "No," repeated Puffy. "Not away from the woods and the stream and fishing, and hunting frogs and tadpoles and water-bugs. Why, he's the ...
— The Poor Little Rich Girl • Eleanor Gates

... of good that'll do my face at tea,' Vernon grunted. 'Why couldn't you say there was something wrong with you instead of lamming out like a lunatic? Is my lip puffy?' ...
— A Diversity of Creatures • Rudyard Kipling

... the foresail began to fret its sheets, and Bevins got her head to seaward. Then there came from astern a hot, puffy breeze, and the schooner stood out on a port tack, curvetting prettily as her sails were ...
— Isle o' Dreams • Frederick F. Moore

... Baltic. Tall, fresh-colored Swedes, in gray frocks and thick blue stockings; stout, light-haired Germans, and ruddy, blue-eyed Danes; big-boned Pomeranians, with low foreheads and shaggy brown beards; and short, squat Finns, whose round puffy faces and thick yellow hair gave them ...
— Harper's Young People, August 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

... small, squat, puffy figure incased within a large pack-saddle, upon the back of a lean, high-boned, straw-fed, cream-coloured nag, with an enormously flowing tail, whose length and breadth would appear to be each night guarded from discolouration by careful involution above the hocks. Taken, ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 20, - Issue 560, August 4, 1832 • Various


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