pluffn.adj.int.adv.

Brit.

/plʌf/, U.S.

/pləf/, Scottish English

/plʌf/

Forms: 1600s pluffe, 1800s– pluff, 1900s– plouff (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– pluff, 1800s plaff, 1900s– pyuff (north-eastern).

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare West Frisian plof (noun and interjection), Dutch plof (1664 or earlier as interjection, 1702 or earlier as noun), both denoting various sounds produced by falling bodies or exploding gases. Compare pluff v., and also earlier puff n. and adj., puff int.

Originally and chiefly Scottish.

A. n.

†a. Scottish. A blowpipe. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air > pipe

pluff1525

blowpipe1685

windpipe1688

phukni1959

1525–6 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 254 For ane pluff to the King xij s.

1642 in J. I. Smith Sel. Justiciary Cases (1972) II. 529 Dilaittit of the cruell and malicious pluffing out with ane pluff and ane hard clay bullett being thairintill of Andro Alexander..of his left eye.

b. Chiefly Scottish. A strong puff or explosive emission of air, powder, smoke, etc., esp. from the firing of a gun; (colloquial) a shot from a musket or hunting gun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > ejection > with violence and noise

belcha1522

explosion1652

pluff1663

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot

pot-shot1592

shot1653

pop1657

pluff1663

round1690

whiff1837

tap1987

1663 W. Sharp in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 131 But this, amongst other great shott, may turn to be a pluff.

1814 W. Tennant Trottin' Nanny ix Set her auld saul in a flame Like pluff o' pouther.

1822 J. Galt Steam-boat iv. 78 He went out of the world like a pluff of powther.

1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 494 He calls..on old Ponto, and will take a pluff at the partridges.

1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xlvii We could see the soldiers running their horses and firing off white pluffs of powder.

1934 G. Martin Dundee Worthies 119 [He] wad gar curious mixtures fizzle an' gae aff wi' great pluffs.

2018 D. C. Purdie in Lallans 92 58 An wi that, he vainished in a pluff o reek.

c. Originally Scottish. A tube through which air can be blown, esp. a simple form of bellows (obsolete). Now (English regional (northern)): spec. a pea-shooter, (also occasionally) a popgun.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun]

poop1489

pellet1553

trunk1553

elder-gun1600

popgun1649

spitter1688

pluff1695

whistling arrowa1718

pea-shooter1782

pea gun1812

detonating ball1814

pea-blower1821

pen-gun1821

pipegun1828

torpedo1831

spring gun1837

putty blower1861

tweaker1862

pluffera1866

bean-shooter1890

putty shooter1896

water pistol1897

stink bomb1915

cap-pistol1920

cap-gun1931

laser gun1961

1695 Summers Divertisement 15 It has ten Barrels open at both ends like a Pluff.

1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 331 The Brownie..would take up the pluff (a piece of bored bourtree for blowing up the fire) and, stirring out the red embers, turn itself till it was rested and dried.

1822 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. July 43 [She] sat wi' her pluff on the hemlock knowe.

1830 W. Bennett Traits Sc. Life II. 288 Pluff, a long wooden tube like a gun barrel..used for blowing new life into the fire.

1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 108/2 Pluff, a pop-gun.

1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 97/2 Pluff, plouff, a blow-pipe, a pea-shooter.

1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 229/2 Pluff, pea shooter.

2. Scottish. A powder puff.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder

puffc1651

powder puff1678

powdering puff1699

pluff1714

puff1732

puffball1821

powder rag1878

puffer1971

1714 in W. C. Dickinson Two Students at St. Andrews (1952) 88 For a pluff to their pouder..0 1s. 0d.

1774 A. Bruce Kirkiad i. 18 Master Puff, With pomate, tongs, and powder-pluff, Performs th' important operation, And gives each hair its proper station.

1790 A. Tait Poems 108 We've ruffs, pluffs, muffs and maidenheads.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vii. 147 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.

1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Pluff, a powder puff.

3. Scottish. An object or item made of stuffing or padding; a pad. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (1968) s.v. records this sense as still in use in Aberdeenshire in 1910 and Kirkcudbrightshire in 1966.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding > a pad

pad1699

pluff1732

1732 in Chrons. Atholl & Tullibardine Families II. 388 I want something to be pluffs to my britches.

1847 Gill Binklets 28 The square hole in the pluff of his breeches was an eye-sore.

1870 G. Henderson Recollections (1914) 31 We played rounders with an improvised bat, our balls being cheap, stuffed with rags, and not over round. We called them ‘pluffs’.

B. adj.

Puffed up, swollen; soft, spongy. Also figurative. Now chiefly in pluff mud n. U.S. regional (chiefly South Carolina) a type of soft, silty mud found in tidal marshes. Cf. pluffy adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > swelling > swollen

bollen?c1225

bolghena1250

swollenc1325

rank?a1400

forbolned1413

puff1472

voustyc1480

knule?a1513

puffed1536

boldenc1540

tumorous1547

bladder-like1549

hoven1558

forswollen1565

uppuffed1573

bolled1578

engrossed1578

heaved1578

puffy1598

swelleda1616

bloughty1620

inflate1620

tympanous1625

tumid1626

tumoured1635

tumefied1651

bloated1664

pluff1673

inflated1744

balloon-like?1784

bladdery1785

ballooned1820

bepuffeda1849

utriculate1860

pobby1888

1673 Answer to Seasonable Disc. 11 All of you look'd as pluffe and big upon the Layty, as starch it self could make you.

1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 513 At the depth of thirteen feet the blue, tenacious, pluff-mud and shells of a more ancient geological epoch are reached.

1855 Littell's Living Age 3 Feb. 291/2 Pluff, puffed up or plumped up, as a spongy substance... A bag of feathers is pluff.

1880 T. Q. Couch East Cornwall Words 97 An old turnip is said to be pluff.

1937 Washington Post 9 June 8/7 As the fragrance of burning peat to the Irishman, so is the smell of pluff mud to the coastal South Carolinian.

2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing iii. 272 Holding tightly to land, I get stuck repeatedly in pluff mud.

C. int. (and adv.)

colloquial. Representing a puffing or explosive sound. Also as adv.: with a pluff. Sc. National Dict. (1968) s.v. records the adverbial use as still in use in Aberdeenshire, Angusshire, and Shetland in 1966.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adverb] > ejected > with explosive emission of air

pluff1826

1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 638 Then pluff-pluff-rap-rap-slab-bang in the direction of Inverary.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvi. 253 As I spoke, pluff came a spirt of smoke with red tongue in it.

1898 S. R. Crockett Standard Bearer xvii Plaff! ye gang up like a waft o' tow thrown in the fire.

1975 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 Mar. 27 Water splashes Pluff.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pluffv.

Brit.

/plʌf/, U.S.

/pləf/, Scottish English

/plʌf/, Irish English

/plʌf/

Forms: English regional 1800s– pluff; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– pluff, 1800s pluft (past tense), 1900s– pluiff; Irish English (northern) 1800s– pluff.

Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.

Etymology: Imitative. Compare West Frisian ploffe (of objects or bodies) to thud, (of gases) to puff out, to explode, Dutch ploffen (of gases) to puff out, to explode (19th cent.; earlier in senses ‘(of objects or bodies) to thud, fall down heavily’, ‘to make a dull sound’ (both 1566)). Compare pluff n.

Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (chiefly northern).

1. intransitive. To puff; to blow out with a puff, esp. suddenly or explosively. Also transitive: to blow or propel (something) from the mouth or through a tube. Formerly (Scottish): spec. †to fire a gun, to shoot (obsolete).

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > exhale or blow smoke

pluff1629

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)]

to let fly1611

gun1622

fire1635

pop1650

pluff1826

squib1831

crack1835

poop1915

loose1928

to turn on (or give) the heat1928

1629 [implied in: Z. Boyd Balme of Gilead 84 These that spend the tyme with pluffing of reeke, which should be better employed. (at pluffing n. 1a)].

1745 Caledonian Mercury 7 Oct. The Garrison of the Castle continued pluffing from behind their Intrenchment all yesterday.

1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 249 He..went pluffing disconsolately among the hills.

1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 153 Several people were fined for pluffing peas at policemen.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Pluff, to puff, to emit a short, sharp blast from the mouth.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 215/1 Pluff,..to blow a short sharp breath.

1975 W. McIlvanney Docherty i. x. 83 Once, awesomely, he farted. It pluffed insidiously into the cushion where he sat, and became a smell—rank as original sin.

1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 257/2 Pluff, blow (peas, hawstones, etc.) through a tube.

2. transitive. To swell up, become puffed up. Frequently with up. Also causatively and intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (intransitive)] > distend > swell

swellOE

to-swellc1000

bolnec1325

pluma1398

bladderc1440

boldena1510

to bulk1551

hove1590

tympanize1607

outswell1612

tumefy1615

extuberate1623

heave1629

blister1644

puff1648

huff1656

intumesce1794

pluff1831

balloon1841

turgesce1864

tumesce1966

1831 J. Hogg Songs 161 To pluff an' trig your braw new wig.

1885 E. C. Sharland Ways & Means in Devonshire Village vii. 110 Hasn't it [sc. the pudding] pluffed (risen) up beautifully?

1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 19 I simmer, whan the smuists are worst an the pluiffin ter froes up atween the causastanes.

1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 215/1 Pluff,..to swell, puff up.

1999 J. Gallas Resistance is Futile 90 Pluffing his feathers And blinking his tired little eyes at the sky.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	pluff
释义	pluffn.adj.int.adv. Brit. /plʌf/, U.S. /pləf/, Scottish English /plʌf/ Forms: 1600s pluffe, 1800s– pluff, 1900s– plouff (English regional (Yorkshire)); Scottish pre-1700 1700s– pluff, 1800s plaff, 1900s– pyuff (north-eastern). Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare West Frisian plof (noun and interjection), Dutch plof (1664 or earlier as interjection, 1702 or earlier as noun), both denoting various sounds produced by falling bodies or exploding gases. Compare pluff v., and also earlier puff n. and adj., puff int. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A. n. 1. †a. Scottish. A blowpipe. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > [noun] > device for producing blast of air > pipe pluff1525 blowpipe1685 windpipe1688 phukni1959 1525–6 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 254 For ane pluff to the King xij s. 1642 in J. I. Smith Sel. Justiciary Cases (1972) II. 529 Dilaittit of the cruell and malicious pluffing out with ane pluff and ane hard clay bullett being thairintill of Andro Alexander..of his left eye. b. Chiefly Scottish. A strong puff or explosive emission of air, powder, smoke, etc., esp. from the firing of a gun; (colloquial) a shot from a musket or hunting gun. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > ejection > with violence and noise belcha1522 explosion1652 pluff1663 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > [noun] > a shot pot-shot1592 shot1653 pop1657 pluff1663 round1690 whiff1837 tap1987 1663 W. Sharp in O. Airy Lauderdale Papers (1884) I. 131 But this, amongst other great shott, may turn to be a pluff. 1814 W. Tennant Trottin' Nanny ix Set her auld saul in a flame Like pluff o' pouther. 1822 J. Galt Steam-boat iv. 78 He went out of the world like a pluff of powther. 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 23 494 He calls..on old Ponto, and will take a pluff at the partridges. 1895 S. R. Crockett Men of Moss-hags xlvii We could see the soldiers running their horses and firing off white pluffs of powder. 1934 G. Martin Dundee Worthies 119 [He] wad gar curious mixtures fizzle an' gae aff wi' great pluffs. 2018 D. C. Purdie in Lallans 92 58 An wi that, he vainished in a pluff o reek. c. Originally Scottish. A tube through which air can be blown, esp. a simple form of bellows (obsolete). Now (English regional (northern)): spec. a pea-shooter, (also occasionally) a popgun. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun] poop1489 pellet1553 trunk1553 elder-gun1600 popgun1649 spitter1688 pluff1695 whistling arrowa1718 pea-shooter1782 pea gun1812 detonating ball1814 pea-blower1821 pen-gun1821 pipegun1828 torpedo1831 spring gun1837 putty blower1861 tweaker1862 pluffera1866 bean-shooter1890 putty shooter1896 water pistol1897 stink bomb1915 cap-pistol1920 cap-gun1931 laser gun1961 1695 Summers Divertisement 15 It has ten Barrels open at both ends like a Pluff. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song 331 The Brownie..would take up the pluff (a piece of bored bourtree for blowing up the fire) and, stirring out the red embers, turn itself till it was rested and dried. 1822 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. July 43 [She] sat wi' her pluff on the hemlock knowe. 1830 W. Bennett Traits Sc. Life II. 288 Pluff, a long wooden tube like a gun barrel..used for blowing new life into the fire. 1877 F. Ross et al. Gloss. Words Holderness 108/2 Pluff, a pop-gun. 1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 97/2 Pluff, plouff, a blow-pipe, a pea-shooter. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 229/2 Pluff, pea shooter. 2. Scottish. A powder puff. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > [noun] > instrument used to apply > instrument used to apply powder puffc1651 powder puff1678 powdering puff1699 pluff1714 puff1732 puffball1821 powder rag1878 puffer1971 1714 in W. C. Dickinson Two Students at St. Andrews (1952) 88 For a pluff to their pouder..0 1s. 0d. 1774 A. Bruce Kirkiad i. 18 Master Puff, With pomate, tongs, and powder-pluff, Performs th' important operation, And gives each hair its proper station. 1790 A. Tait Poems 108 We've ruffs, pluffs, muffs and maidenheads. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. vii. 147 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. 1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Pluff, a powder puff. 3. Scottish. An object or item made of stuffing or padding; a pad. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (1968) s.v. records this sense as still in use in Aberdeenshire in 1910 and Kirkcudbrightshire in 1966. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being internal > [noun] > lining > stuffing or padding > a pad pad1699 pluff1732 1732 in Chrons. Atholl & Tullibardine Families II. 388 I want something to be pluffs to my britches. 1847 Gill Binklets 28 The square hole in the pluff of his breeches was an eye-sore. 1870 G. Henderson Recollections (1914) 31 We played rounders with an improvised bat, our balls being cheap, stuffed with rags, and not over round. We called them ‘pluffs’. B. adj. Puffed up, swollen; soft, spongy. Also figurative. Now chiefly in pluff mud n. U.S. regional (chiefly South Carolina) a type of soft, silty mud found in tidal marshes. Cf. pluffy adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > swelling > swollen bollen?c1225 bolghena1250 swollenc1325 rank?a1400 forbolned1413 puff1472 voustyc1480 knule?a1513 puffed1536 boldenc1540 tumorous1547 bladder-like1549 hoven1558 forswollen1565 uppuffed1573 bolled1578 engrossed1578 heaved1578 puffy1598 swelleda1616 bloughty1620 inflate1620 tympanous1625 tumid1626 tumoured1635 tumefied1651 bloated1664 pluff1673 inflated1744 balloon-like?1784 bladdery1785 ballooned1820 bepuffeda1849 utriculate1860 pobby1888 1673 Answer to Seasonable Disc. 11 All of you look'd as pluffe and big upon the Layty, as starch it self could make you. 1853 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 513 At the depth of thirteen feet the blue, tenacious, pluff-mud and shells of a more ancient geological epoch are reached. 1855 Littell's Living Age 3 Feb. 291/2 Pluff, puffed up or plumped up, as a spongy substance... A bag of feathers is pluff. 1880 T. Q. Couch East Cornwall Words 97 An old turnip is said to be pluff. 1937 Washington Post 9 June 8/7 As the fragrance of burning peat to the Irishman, so is the smell of pluff mud to the coastal South Carolinian. 2001 J. Waterman Arctic Crossing iii. 272 Holding tightly to land, I get stuck repeatedly in pluff mud. C. int. (and adv.) colloquial. Representing a puffing or explosive sound. Also as adv.: with a pluff. Sc. National Dict. (1968) s.v. records the adverbial use as still in use in Aberdeenshire, Angusshire, and Shetland in 1966. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adverb] > ejected > with explosive emission of air pluff1826 1826 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianae xxviii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 638 Then pluff-pluff-rap-rap-slab-bang in the direction of Inverary. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvi. 253 As I spoke, pluff came a spirt of smoke with red tongue in it. 1898 S. R. Crockett Standard Bearer xvii Plaff! ye gang up like a waft o' tow thrown in the fire. 1975 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 Mar. 27 Water splashes Pluff. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pluffv. Brit. /plʌf/, U.S. /pləf/, Scottish English /plʌf/, Irish English /plʌf/ Forms: English regional 1800s– pluff; Scottish pre-1700 1700s– pluff, 1800s pluft (past tense), 1900s– pluiff; Irish English (northern) 1800s– pluff. Origin: An imitative or expressive formation. Etymology: Imitative. Compare West Frisian ploffe (of objects or bodies) to thud, (of gases) to puff out, to explode, Dutch ploffen (of gases) to puff out, to explode (19th cent.; earlier in senses ‘(of objects or bodies) to thud, fall down heavily’, ‘to make a dull sound’ (both 1566)). Compare pluff n. Scottish, Irish English (northern), and English regional (chiefly northern). 1. intransitive. To puff; to blow out with a puff, esp. suddenly or explosively. Also transitive: to blow or propel (something) from the mouth or through a tube. Formerly (Scottish): spec. †to fire a gun, to shoot (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > tobacco > smoking > use as material for smoking [verb (transitive)] > exhale or blow smoke pluff1629 society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] to let fly1611 gun1622 fire1635 pop1650 pluff1826 squib1831 crack1835 poop1915 loose1928 to turn on (or give) the heat1928 1629 [implied in: Z. Boyd Balme of Gilead 84 These that spend the tyme with pluffing of reeke, which should be better employed. (at pluffing n. 1a)]. 1745 Caledonian Mercury 7 Oct. The Garrison of the Castle continued pluffing from behind their Intrenchment all yesterday. 1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 19 249 He..went pluffing disconsolately among the hills. 1866 J. E. Brogden Provinc. Words Lincs. 153 Several people were fined for pluffing peas at policemen. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Pluff, to puff, to emit a short, sharp blast from the mouth. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 215/1 Pluff,..to blow a short sharp breath. 1975 W. McIlvanney Docherty i. x. 83 Once, awesomely, he farted. It pluffed insidiously into the cushion where he sat, and became a smell—rank as original sin. 1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 257/2 Pluff, blow (peas, hawstones, etc.) through a tube. 2. transitive. To swell up, become puffed up. Frequently with up. Also causatively and intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > expand or enlarge [verb (intransitive)] > distend > swell swellOE to-swellc1000 bolnec1325 pluma1398 bladderc1440 boldena1510 to bulk1551 hove1590 tympanize1607 outswell1612 tumefy1615 extuberate1623 heave1629 blister1644 puff1648 huff1656 intumesce1794 pluff1831 balloon1841 turgesce1864 tumesce1966 1831 J. Hogg Songs 161 To pluff an' trig your braw new wig. 1885 E. C. Sharland Ways & Means in Devonshire Village vii. 110 Hasn't it [sc. the pudding] pluffed (risen) up beautifully? 1925 E. C. Smith Mang Howes 19 I simmer, whan the smuists are worst an the pluiffin ter froes up atween the causastanes. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 215/1 Pluff,..to swell, puff up. 1999 J. Gallas Resistance is Futile 90 Pluffing his feathers And blinking his tired little eyes at the sky. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.int.adv.1525v.1629
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