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▪ I. pluff, n. (a., int.) Sc.|plʌf|
[Echoic. So LG. pluf, Du. plof interj.; LG. pluffen, Du. ploffen, WFris. ploffien to puff, explode.]
1. A strong puff or explosive emission of air, gas or smoke (as in the firing of gunpowder), or of dust; hence, colloq. a shot of a musket or fowling-piece.
1663W. Sharp in Lauderdale Papers (Camden) I. 131 But this, amongst other great shott, may turn to be a pluff. 1822Galt Steam-boat iv. 78 He went out of the world like a pluff of powther. 1828J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXIII. 494 He calls..on old Ponto, and will take a pluff at the partridges. 1895Crockett Men of Moss-Hags xlvii, We could see the soldiers running their horses and firing off white pluffs of powder.
2. A powder-puff. Obs. or dial.
1816Scott Antiq. xxxvi, A veshell that rins ashore wi' us flees asunder like the powther when I shake the pluff, and it's as ill to gather ony o't again.
B. adj. Puffed up, swollen. In quot. fig.
1673Answ. to Seasonable Disc. 11 All of you look'd as pluffe and big upon the Layty, as starch it self could make you.
C. as int. or adv. With a pluff; puff! colloq.
1860Russell Diary India I. xvi. 253 As I spoke, pluff came a spirt of smoke with red tongue in it.
▪ II. pluff, v. Sc. and dial.|plʌf|
[f. as prec.]
1. trans. To blow out (smoke or breath) with explosive action, to puff. Also intr. to discharge a gun, shoot.
1629Z. Boyd Balm of Gilead 84 These that spend the tyme with pluffing of reeke, which should be better employed. 1826Blackw. Mag. XIX. 249 He..went pluffing disconsolately among the hills.
2. intr. To swell up, become puffed up.
1885E. C. Sharland Ways Devon. Village vii. 110 Hasn't it [the pudding] pluffed (risen) up beautifully?
Hence ˈpluffing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also ˈpluffer, a shooter, gunner (colloq.).
1828J. Wilson in Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 278 Is that the pluffer at partridge-pouts who had nearly been the death of poor Ponto? 1852Ibid. LXXII. 220 If in Central Africa, you would suppose they were practising in a menagerie, and you conclude that there must be prime pluffing in Polito's. 1853Mrs. Carlyle Lett. (1883) II. 227 She..slept a fine natural ‘pluffing’ sleep till one in the morning. |