Puff

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. A short forceful exhalation of breath.
  • noun. A short sudden gust of wind.
  • noun. A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.
  • noun. A short sibilant sound produced by a puff.
  • noun. An amount of vapor, smoke, or similar material released in a puff.
  • noun. An act of drawing in and expelling the breath, as in smoking tobacco.
  • noun. A swelling or rounded protuberance.
  • noun. Puff pastry.
  • noun. A light soft pad for applying powder or lotion.
  • noun. A gathered, protruding portion of fabric.
  • noun. A light padded bed covering.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. An approving or flattering recommendation.
  • noun. A piece of writing, as on the jacket of a book, containing often exaggerated praise, used for promotional purposes.
  • noun. A localized region of swelling in certain chromosomes indicating the active synthesis of RNA.
  • intransitive verb. To blow in puffs.
  • intransitive verb. To come forth in puffs.
  • intransitive verb. To breathe forcefully and rapidly.
  • intransitive verb. To emit puffs.
  • intransitive verb. To take puffs on smoking material.
  • intransitive verb. To swell or seem to swell, as with pride or air. Often used with up.
  • intransitive verb. To emit or give forth in puffs.
  • intransitive verb. To impel with puffs.
  • intransitive verb. To smoke (a cigar, for example).
  • intransitive verb. To inflate or distend.
  • intransitive verb. To fill with pride or conceit.
  • intransitive verb. To publicize with often exaggerated praise.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • An exclamation of contempt or impatience.
  • To blow with quick, intermittent blasts; emit a whiff, as of wind, air, or smoke.
  • To blow, as an expression of scorn or contempt; snort; sneer.
  • To breathe with agitation, as after violent exertion.
  • To act or move with flurry and a swelling, bustling appearance; assume importance.
  • To blow; send forth in quick short blasts or whiffs; drive with a blast.
  • To draw smoke through, or send out smoke from.
  • To fill, inflate, or expand with breath or air, and figuratively with pride, vanity, conceit, etc.; swell: frequently with up: as, puffed up with success; puffed with ambition.
  • To praise with exaggeration; give undue or servile praise to.
  • In botany, to discharge suddenly a clond of spores, as frequently occurs in certain fungi.
  • noun. A sharp, forcible blast; a whiff; a sudden emission, as of air from the mouth, or smoke from the stack of an engine; also, as much as is suddenly so emitted at one time.
  • noun. A puffball.
  • noun. An inflated, swollen, light, fluffy, or porous thing or part.
  • noun. A light, porous, spongy, or friable cake, generally filled with preserve or the like: as, cream-puffs; jam-puffs.
  • noun. An implement consisting of swan's down or a wad of flossy or loose texture, used for applying powder to the hair or skin. See powderpuff.
  • noun. Exaggerated or undue praise uttered or written from an interested point of view; especially, a written commendation of a book, an actor's or a singer's performance, a tradesman's goods, or the like.
  • noun. One who is puffed up; an inflated, conceited person.
  • noun. One who writes puffs.
  • noun. A small vessel with minute openings for scattering liquid perfumes.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff.
  • noun. Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: (a) A puffball. (b) kind of light pastry. (c) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.
  • noun. An exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal.
  • cross-reference
    Equivalent
    fancy  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Seat  blast  blow  bluster  boast  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Slough  bluff  bruff  buff  cuff  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    explosion  flake  flare  flurry  gasp  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-form
    puffed  puffing  puffs