puffballn.

Brit.

/ˈpʌfbɔːl/, U.S.

/ˈpəfˌbɔl/,

/ˈpəfˌbɑl/

Forms: 1600s pufbal, 1600s pufball, 1600s pusball (probably transmission error), 1700s– puffball.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: puff n., ball n.¹

Etymology: < puff n. + ball n.¹ Compare Dutch pofbal ball with a soft filling or not completely filled with air (1574 in Kiliaan). With sense 1a compare earlier puff n. 5a, puff-fist n., fuzz-ball n., earth-puff n. at earth n.¹ Compounds 8a.

a. Any of various gasteromycete fungi characterized by a globose fruiting body which on the rupturing of the outer wall (peridium) at maturity discharges a cloud of powdery spores.Many species of puffball are edible when young. In a dried state they were formerly used as tinder, and to provide a narcotic or stupefying smoke.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > puff-ball

wolf's-fista1300

puckfistc1300

puff1538

earth-puff1585

foist1593

fist1597

fuzz-ball1597

puff-fist1597

bunt1601

fuzz1601

bullfist1611

mully-puff1629

fist-ball1635

puffball1649

puck-ball1730

puffin1755

lycoperdon1756

frog cheese1766

puck1766

fuzzy-ballc1850

ball smut1925

1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver vii. 40 And filleth the Earth with Winde,..and makes it swell and rise like a Pufball [printed Pusball].

1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1364 I find the Dust of the..Puff-Ball to be the minutest Powder that I ever saw.

1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 502 Common Puff-ball is roundish, and discharges its dust by a torn aperture in the top.

1843 Zoologist 1 25 Intoxicating the bees..by filling the hive with the smoke of an ignited puff-ball.

1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 199 The giant puff~ball (Bovista gigantea)..increases from the size of a pea to that of a melon in a single night.

1892 G. Meredith Ode to Comic Spirit 19 The poor smoke Struck from a puff-ball, or the troughster's grunt.

1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 171 Another delectable morsel is the humble little puff ball. These should be taken at their prime while the flesh is firm and white.

1993 Times 9 Oct. (Weekend section) 4/3 Each has his or her secret spot for finding..puffballs and shaggy inkhorns, horns of plenty, hedgehog and parasol mushrooms.

b. figurative. Something empty, insubstantial, or trivial; (derogatory) a pompous, bombastic, or self-important person, a ‘windbag’.

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the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person

puffball1763

pomposo1806

panjandrum1825

Lord Muck1858

stuffed shirt1913

blimp1935

1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward i. 65 I have assigned a ratio for the secretory officinal of dreams, which are these puff-balls; composed as before-mentioned.

1826 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. iv. 87 Tholuck was initiated a few days since,..and that great puff-ball Marheineke delivered addresses in Latin.

1843 C. Mathews Var. Writings 321 This empty-pated puff-ball, is, in the course of time, regarded as an able, popular, and influential character.

1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 221 A poisonous puff-ball of pride.

1955 Sat. Night (Toronto) 5 Feb. 13/1 Isn't that a small price to pay for Sean's superb deflation of the G. K. Chesterton puffball!

1977 Guardian Weekly 30 Oct. 18/3 The general idiocy of the military puff-balls who surrounded him.

1996 W. McCarthy Murder in Solid State ii. 25 They were the sort of thing snobby college kids showed off to their friends..not at all the sort of thing David expected to see dropping from the jacket sleeve of a puffball like Otto Vandegroot.

c. Something resembling or reminiscent of a puffball (sense 1a) in appearance; an inflated, swollen, or puffy object.

ΚΠ

1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 May 7/3 Soft and round, the baby's pair of puff balls, with their fat wrists deeply ringed.

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xi. 266 A diver's wreck, where an armoured livid subtermarine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness.

1950 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 21 Oct. 1/4 The skies sprouted with thousands of puffballs as green, white, blue, red, and yellow parachutes descended.

1998 Canal Boat & Inland Waterways July 43/3 I had cried my eyes into huge red puffballs.

†2. As a mass noun: the dried powdery spores of a puffball used as a styptic. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > for stopping bleeding > plant-derived

mully-puff1629

agaric1756

puffball1767

matico1842

hydrastis1861

amadou1876

soldiers' tea1895

1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 173 Over which..it will still be right to apply Puff-Ball.., or some such substance.., to retard the fall of the eschar as long as possible.

3. A powder puff; (in extended use) something resembling or reminiscent of a powder puff in appearance, esp. the pappus of the dandelion, thistle, etc.

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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

1821–2 W. Swainson Zool. Illustr. II. Pl. 99 The disproportionate size of the head [of the puff-bird] is rendered more conspicuous by the bird raising its feathers so as to appear not unlike a puff ball.

1860 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 380/1 The puff-ball of the dandelion.

1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 396/1 The exquisite little white puff-balls of dogs.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 145 As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet.

1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 84 At the base of her [sc. a dog's] ears..the system of head hair began in a kind of spray. It was as though she had a light grey flower, a puff-ball, stuck in front of each.

1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 124 The salsify weed..has a purple or yellow blossom and later a puffball like a huge dandelion.

2006 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 20 In the same range is Champagne Kisses Body Shimmer,..a giant puffball with a box of powder.

4. Nautical slang. An extra section of canvas added to the bottom or edge of a sail; = save-all n. 4. Cf. bonnet n. 7. Now chiefly historical.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > extra canvas laced to sail

bonnet1440

sail-bond?a1500

drabbler1594

dabbler1611

puffball1933

1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 263 Bloody Bill China had bonnets on his courses and contrivances that he called puffballs in the roaches of his topsails.

1987 I. Dear & P. Kemp Pocket Oxf. Guide Sailing Terms 158/2 Save-all..was also sometimes used to describe the bonnets proper, laced to the courses, and also occasionally called by the slang term ‘puff-ball’.

5. Fashion. A puffball skirt (see Compounds 2).

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > other

bases1562

petticoat1661

petticoatie1796

basquine1819

gypsy skirt1871

divided skirt1885

lava-lava1891

saya1899

three-decker1909

harem skirt1910

lappa1954

skort1957

puffball1959

swirl skirt1962

longuette1970

1959 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 July e13/2 Variety is infinite in the cocktail and evening clothes. Beside the resurrected sack, there are skinny three-tiered effects, sheaths and puffballs.

1987 Times 9 June 25/1 Christian Lacroix, the Paris designer,..is credited with introducing the pouffe, otherwise known as the puffball, into the grandest parties.

2006 Vogue (Nexis) July 152 (caption) ‘Hellfire rage’ was the feminist reaction to Lacroix's 1987 puffballs, reported the International Herald Tribune.

Compounds

C1. General attributive, with the sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a puffball (in various senses)’.

ΚΠ

1875 S. Evans In Studio 16 A mere puff-ball existence.

1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xvii. 152 She gave an adipose chuckle and patted his knee with her puff-ball hand.

1933 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Feb. 12/4 Soft fluffy puffball clouds from the west nor'west took on a delicious pink and red coloration.

1993 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 3 e The Grove has done well by this kind of fast-action puffball comedy in recent years.

2006 Weight Watchers Mag. June 74/1 Any extra moisture sends fine or wavy hair into puffball fuzz.

C2. attributive. Fashion. Designating a short skirt or dress which is gathered in round the hemline to produce a puffy, billowing form. Also applied to very fully puffed sleeves, drapery, etc.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > skirt > types of

three-decker1898

culotte1911

puffball1953

micro-mini1967

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > short

moochi1872

trotteur1904

trotter skirt1909

puffball1953

miniskirt1962

micro-mini1967

micro-miniskirt1967

micro1968

skating skirt1968

mini1987

1953 N.Y. Times 19 July i. 51 (advt.) The ohs and ahs will never cease when you're prettied and freshened by this..peignoir with lace-edged baby collar and puff-ball sleeves.

1958 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 30 Jan. 1/3 There are ‘birthday cake’ or Dresden doll formals, with tiny waisted bodices and puffball skirts.

2005 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 11 Feb. 8 A trip back in time to an era of puffball dresses, rock 'n' roll and giant Cadillacs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	puffball
释义	puffballn. Brit. /ˈpʌfbɔːl/, U.S. /ˈpəfˌbɔl/, /ˈpəfˌbɑl/ Forms: 1600s pufbal, 1600s pufball, 1600s pusball (probably transmission error), 1700s– puffball. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: puff n., ball n.¹ Etymology: < puff n. + ball n.¹ Compare Dutch pofbal ball with a soft filling or not completely filled with air (1574 in Kiliaan). With sense 1a compare earlier puff n. 5a, puff-fist n., fuzz-ball n., earth-puff n. at earth n.¹ Compounds 8a. 1. a. Any of various gasteromycete fungi characterized by a globose fruiting body which on the rupturing of the outer wall (peridium) at maturity discharges a cloud of powdery spores.Many species of puffball are edible when young. In a dried state they were formerly used as tinder, and to provide a narcotic or stupefying smoke. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > puff-ball wolf's-fista1300 puckfistc1300 puff1538 earth-puff1585 foist1593 fist1597 fuzz-ball1597 puff-fist1597 bunt1601 fuzz1601 bullfist1611 mully-puff1629 fist-ball1635 puffball1649 puck-ball1730 puffin1755 lycoperdon1756 frog cheese1766 puck1766 fuzzy-ballc1850 ball smut1925 1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver vii. 40 And filleth the Earth with Winde,..and makes it swell and rise like a Pufball [printed Pusball]. 1703 Philos. Trans. 1702–3 (Royal Soc.) 23 1364 I find the Dust of the..Puff-Ball to be the minutest Powder that I ever saw. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxxii. 502 Common Puff-ball is roundish, and discharges its dust by a torn aperture in the top. 1843 Zoologist 1 25 Intoxicating the bees..by filling the hive with the smoke of an ignited puff-ball. 1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 199 The giant puff~ball (Bovista gigantea)..increases from the size of a pea to that of a melon in a single night. 1892 G. Meredith Ode to Comic Spirit 19 The poor smoke Struck from a puff-ball, or the troughster's grunt. 1961 W. P. Keller Canada's Wild Glory iv. 171 Another delectable morsel is the humble little puff ball. These should be taken at their prime while the flesh is firm and white. 1993 Times 9 Oct. (Weekend section) 4/3 Each has his or her secret spot for finding..puffballs and shaggy inkhorns, horns of plenty, hedgehog and parasol mushrooms. b. figurative. Something empty, insubstantial, or trivial; (derogatory) a pompous, bombastic, or self-important person, a ‘windbag’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [noun] > person puffball1763 pomposo1806 panjandrum1825 Lord Muck1858 stuffed shirt1913 blimp1935 1763 G. A. Stevens Dramatic Hist. Master Edward i. 65 I have assigned a ratio for the secretory officinal of dreams, which are these puff-balls; composed as before-mentioned. 1826 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1893) I. iv. 87 Tholuck was initiated a few days since,..and that great puff-ball Marheineke delivered addresses in Latin. 1843 C. Mathews Var. Writings 321 This empty-pated puff-ball, is, in the course of time, regarded as an able, popular, and influential character. 1873 C. G. Leland Egyptian Sketch-bk. 221 A poisonous puff-ball of pride. 1955 Sat. Night (Toronto) 5 Feb. 13/1 Isn't that a small price to pay for Sean's superb deflation of the G. K. Chesterton puffball! 1977 Guardian Weekly 30 Oct. 18/3 The general idiocy of the military puff-balls who surrounded him. 1996 W. McCarthy Murder in Solid State ii. 25 They were the sort of thing snobby college kids showed off to their friends..not at all the sort of thing David expected to see dropping from the jacket sleeve of a puffball like Otto Vandegroot. c. Something resembling or reminiscent of a puffball (sense 1a) in appearance; an inflated, swollen, or puffy object. ΚΠ 1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 23 May 7/3 Soft and round, the baby's pair of puff balls, with their fat wrists deeply ringed. 1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors II. xi. 266 A diver's wreck, where an armoured livid subtermarine, a monstrous puff-ball of man, wandered seriously light in heaviness. 1950 Portland (Maine) Press Herald 21 Oct. 1/4 The skies sprouted with thousands of puffballs as green, white, blue, red, and yellow parachutes descended. 1998 Canal Boat & Inland Waterways July 43/3 I had cried my eyes into huge red puffballs. †2. As a mass noun: the dried powdery spores of a puffball used as a styptic. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > astringent or restringent preparations > [noun] > for stopping bleeding > plant-derived mully-puff1629 agaric1756 puffball1767 matico1842 hydrastis1861 amadou1876 soldiers' tea1895 1767 B. Gooch Pract. Treat. Wounds I. 173 Over which..it will still be right to apply Puff-Ball.., or some such substance.., to retard the fall of the eschar as long as possible. 3. A powder puff; (in extended use) something resembling or reminiscent of a powder puff in appearance, esp. the pappus of the dandelion, thistle, etc. 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 1821–2 W. Swainson Zool. Illustr. II. Pl. 99 The disproportionate size of the head [of the puff-bird] is rendered more conspicuous by the bird raising its feathers so as to appear not unlike a puff ball. 1860 Macmillan's Mag. Sept. 380/1 The puff-ball of the dandelion. 1872 Routledge's Every Boy's Ann. 396/1 The exquisite little white puff-balls of dogs. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. viii. [Lestrygonians] 145 As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet. 1960 J. R. Ackerley We think World of You 84 At the base of her [sc. a dog's] ears..the system of head hair began in a kind of spray. It was as though she had a light grey flower, a puff-ball, stuck in front of each. 1988 D. Ing Chernobyl Syndrome 124 The salsify weed..has a purple or yellow blossom and later a puffball like a huge dandelion. 2006 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 3 Jan. 20 In the same range is Champagne Kisses Body Shimmer,..a giant puffball with a box of powder. 4. Nautical slang. An extra section of canvas added to the bottom or edge of a sail; = save-all n. 4. Cf. bonnet n. 7. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > extra canvas laced to sail bonnet1440 sail-bond?a1500 drabbler1594 dabbler1611 puffball1933 1933 J. Masefield Bird of Dawning 263 Bloody Bill China had bonnets on his courses and contrivances that he called puffballs in the roaches of his topsails. 1987 I. Dear & P. Kemp Pocket Oxf. Guide Sailing Terms 158/2 Save-all..was also sometimes used to describe the bonnets proper, laced to the courses, and also occasionally called by the slang term ‘puff-ball’. 5. Fashion. A puffball skirt (see Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > other bases1562 petticoat1661 petticoatie1796 basquine1819 gypsy skirt1871 divided skirt1885 lava-lava1891 saya1899 three-decker1909 harem skirt1910 lappa1954 skort1957 puffball1959 swirl skirt1962 longuette1970 1959 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 30 July e13/2 Variety is infinite in the cocktail and evening clothes. Beside the resurrected sack, there are skinny three-tiered effects, sheaths and puffballs. 1987 Times 9 June 25/1 Christian Lacroix, the Paris designer,..is credited with introducing the pouffe, otherwise known as the puffball, into the grandest parties. 2006 Vogue (Nexis) July 152 (caption) ‘Hellfire rage’ was the feminist reaction to Lacroix's 1987 puffballs, reported the International Herald Tribune. Compounds C1. General attributive, with the sense ‘resembling or reminiscent of a puffball (in various senses)’. ΚΠ 1875 S. Evans In Studio 16 A mere puff-ball existence. 1920 E. Wharton Age of Innocence xvii. 152 She gave an adipose chuckle and patted his knee with her puff-ball hand. 1933 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 13 Feb. 12/4 Soft fluffy puffball clouds from the west nor'west took on a delicious pink and red coloration. 1993 Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) (Nexis) 2 Mar. 3 e The Grove has done well by this kind of fast-action puffball comedy in recent years. 2006 Weight Watchers Mag. June 74/1 Any extra moisture sends fine or wavy hair into puffball fuzz. C2. attributive. Fashion. Designating a short skirt or dress which is gathered in round the hemline to produce a puffy, billowing form. Also applied to very fully puffed sleeves, drapery, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adjective] > skirt > types of three-decker1898 culotte1911 puffball1953 micro-mini1967 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > clothing for lower body > skirt > types of > short moochi1872 trotteur1904 trotter skirt1909 puffball1953 miniskirt1962 micro-mini1967 micro-miniskirt1967 micro1968 skating skirt1968 mini1987 1953 N.Y. Times 19 July i. 51 (advt.) The ohs and ahs will never cease when you're prettied and freshened by this..peignoir with lace-edged baby collar and puff-ball sleeves. 1958 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 30 Jan. 1/3 There are ‘birthday cake’ or Dresden doll formals, with tiny waisted bodices and puffball skirts. 2005 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 11 Feb. 8 A trip back in time to an era of puffball dresses, rock 'n' roll and giant Cadillacs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1649
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