Puffed

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In costume, gathered up into rounded ridges, as a sleeve, or one leg of a pair of hose.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Same as puffed out.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of puff.
  • adjective. inflated or swollen
  • adjective. consisting of a puff
  • adjective. expanded by the use of steam
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  • adjective. gathered for protruding fullness
  • Word Usage
    "Again the breeze fell flat, then puffed from the old quarter, compelling a shift back of sheets and tackles."
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    Equivalent
    fancy  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bluffed  cuffed  fluffed  huffed  luffed  
    verb-stem
    puff