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▪ I. † puft Obs.
[An early by-form of puff n.: cf. tuft.]
= puff n.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. ii. (Tollem. MS.), With a stronge blaste, oþer a pufte of wynde. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 2648 All his [a spider's] webb A puft of wynde away reues. 1513Douglas æneis iv. xii. 122 With a puft of aynd, the lyfe furth went. 1615Chapman Odyss. v. 65 With pace as speedy as a puft of wind. 1785,1795in Eng. Dial. Dict.
▪ II. puft, ppl. a.
see puffed. |