puffyadj.

Brit.

/ˈpʌfi/, U.S.

/ˈpəfi/

Forms: 1500s–1700s puffie, 1600s– puffy.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: puff n., -y suffix¹.

Etymology: < puff n. + -y suffix¹.

1. Suggestive of a puff of wind; empty of substance or worth; inconsequential, vain; (of language or style) overblown, bombastic; (of a person) self-important, pompous, blustering. Cf. puffed adj. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [adjective]

buggish1536

puffya1594

important1726

self-important1732

consequential1758

self-consequent1834

gumptious1853

brussen1897

prima donna1897

prima donna-ish1926

over-inflated1934

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic

fleshyc1369

windya1382

unmeasureda1425

puffing1566

embossed1578

puffed1587

bombasted1589

fustian1592

puffya1594

full-mouthed1594

orificial1594

gouty1595

swelling1597

mouth-filling1598

taffeta1598

bombast1601

tiptoe-strouting1602

turgidous1602

swollen1605

dropsieda1616

exsufflicatea1616

turgent1621

ampullous1622

tympanous1625

high-flown1632

tumorousa1637

blustered1638

tumid1648

bombastical1649

ranting1650

inflated1652

tuftaffetya1658

pompiona1670

bombastic1704

dropsical1721

thundering1725

turgid1725

exsuffolate1744

Lexiphanic1767

hi cockalorum1783

Ossianic1788

mouthing1814

mouthy1827

sophomoric1837

highfalutin1839

sophomorical1847

spread eagle1853

tumescent1882

Herodian1886

Ossianesque1889

Barnumesque1890

a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) iii. i. 87 Staye, Yorke, and heare me speake, thie puffie wordes, Thie windie threates, thie raylinge Cvrses, light Vppon thie stubborne necke.

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres ii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 48 O worthles puffie slaue!

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plato in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 321 A Puffy Conceit and Opinion of Knowledge.

1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. b2^v He distinguish'd not the blown puffy stile, from true sublimity.

1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III Pref. p. xxv Puffy Pretensions to extraordinary Revelations.

a1788 J. Robertson Coll. Comic Songs (1805) 24 A coxcomb's head is chaff,..Too puffy he's by half.

1827 New Monthly Mag. 19 6 This calling upon lads for a style before they have got ideas..is the main cause of the puffy, spungy, spewy, washy style that prevails at the present day.

1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 173 A rather puffy and consequential man.

1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 474/2 There is a pursy, puffy, officious, inefficient colonel who clings in the reader's memory almost like an office-mate of Pepys.

1973 Saga-bk. Viking Soc. 18 391 He..remarks, ‘This is fine narrative, gallant, comic, beautiful, deadly, zestful, hard, heady, and precise’—a statement which..employs the puffy epithets of the blurb-writer in place of the language of criticism.

1993 Mother Jones Jan. 39/2 So many corporations are making such puffy noises about how good they are on environmental issues, but not all of them are.

a. That is or seems to be puffed up or inflated; swollen, distended, esp. unusually or unnaturally so; having a tendency to swell or puff up; flabby, spongy. Also: puffed or fluffed out; fluffy, light, airy. Cf. puffed adj. 2.In quot. 1598 probably overlapping with sense 1.

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

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 24 Glittering in dawbed lac'd accoustrements, And pleasing sutes of loues habiliments. Yet puffie as Dutch hose they are within.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 12 House-Spiders..have a very puffy light body of an Oval figure.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xxvii. 143 Emphysema is a light puffy Tumour easily yielding to the pressure of your fingers.

1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 180/2 They are of a ruddy Substance, partly fleshie, partly membranous, soft, puffie, clad with a thin Tunicle.

1712 S. Cobb Callipædia i. 24 No meager bony Jaws deform the Face, Nor puffy Sides the taper Shape disgrace.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 22 Puffy Land, which naturally swells up, instead of subsiding.

1788 G. Colman Ways & Means iii. 41 Before I went over I was as pale and as puffy—flesh without colour, and my face peeping thro' a parcel of wrappers.

1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 340/2 The oriental train and puffy turban.

1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 206/1 It is want of salt that makes cheese puffy, while too much salt makes the cheese hard.

1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 278 The [owl's] round, puffy head, the little hooked beak just appearing from the downy plumage.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 3/2 The shoulder deserted by the puffy sleeve.

1947 J. Steinbeck Pearl i. 17 His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh.

1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles viii. 143 In the west shoals of narrow, puffy clouds were assembling for what was obviously going to be a glorious sunset.

1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant iii. 86 There were two armchairs, puffy.

1996 N. Maraire Zenzele ii. 13 The maid set down a full tray of tea and little puffy scones.

†b. Having the quality or property of causing something to swell. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

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

swelling1398

strutting1567

puffy1718

1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 1348 The puffy Poison spreads, and heaves around, Till all the Man is in the Monster drown'd.

a. Blowing or emitted in short puffs; gusty. Also: characterized by puffs or gusts of wind.In quot. 1616 in figurative context; cf. windy adj.¹ 7 and sense 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blowing (of wind) > blowing in or characterized by gusts

blasty1582

gusty1592

puffy1616

frettinga1665

squally1748

flawy1807

gustful1825

fretfula1849

1616 T. Adams Dis. Soule 33 Hee liues at a high saile, that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland, vaineglory.

1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids viii. 241 Vulcan in Aeolian puffy plains Thus busie was.

1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. ii. 27 Inlets beloved by baymen, safe avenues of escape from the rough assaults of the puffy servants of æolus.

1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 242 Race not with a ramping might, Like puffy Boreas blowing.

1894 Times 25 July 11 A strong puffy off-shore wind was blowing.

1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 Sept. (Daily Mag. section) 1/7 Most citizens know little about..the treacherous puffy winds of the Bay region.

1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 40/2 These high mainsheet tensions require a mast sufficiently flexible to ‘work’ at the tip..in puffy conditions.

1996 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Feb. 18/1 The staysail was completely furled, and the 130-percent Genoa was making the most of the light, puffy air.

b. Of a person or animal: breathless, panting; short-winded, prone to breathlessness. Cf. puffed adj. 3. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > of breath: short > affected with

windlessa1400

breathlessa1425

short-breathed1470

andless1487

short-windeda1500

short-ended1595

breathed1599

outbreathed1600

strait-winded1601

anhelous1617

anheled1656

anhelant1657

suspirious1657

anhelose1661

blown1674

short-lunged1687

unbreathed1692

puffy1799

puffed1813

scant-of-wind1823

pumped-out1854

winded1883

1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 222 The former gives them [sc. horses] better wind; the latter renders them puffy.

1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 692 Abbot showed himself the worse for exertion, and became puffy.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. 58 My oss was rather puffy.

1860 Times 12 June 8/6 Heavy gentlemen of the old school, who grow every day more puffy and asthmatic because they can get nothing to ride.

1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet 68 His clothes were soaked through with sweat; he was puffy and hacking up sputum.

†c. Of a sound: dull, muffled. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective]

deada1533

sullen1599

wooden1609

flat1626

shallow1626

lumpish1742

dowf1768

toneless1773

deadish1783

insonorous1795

tubby1807

veiled1816

puffy1832

narrow-toned1865

woolly1872

woody1875

dull1878

irresonant1899

1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ix. 220 The glass loses its power of ringing..and emits only a disagreeable and puffy sound.

Compounds

C1. Parasynthetic and similative in sense 2a, as puffy-bodied, puffy-cheeked, puffy-eyed, puffy-faced, puffy-looking, etc., adjs.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump

fatc893

frimOE

fullOE

overfatOE

greatOE

bald1297

roundc1300

encorsivea1340

fattishc1369

fleshyc1369

fleshlyc1374

repletea1398

largec1405

corsious1430

corpulentc1440

corsyc1440

fulsome1447

portlyc1487

corporate1509

foggy fata1529

corsive1530

foggish?1537

plump1545

fatty1552

fleshful1552

pubble1566

plum1570

pursy1576

well-fleshed1576

gross?1577

fog1582

forfatted1586

gulchy1598

bouksome1600

fat-fed1607

meatified1607

chuff1609

plumpya1616

bloat1638

blowze-like1647

obese1651

jollya1661

bloated1664

chubbed1674

pluffya1689

puffya1689

pussy1688

sappy1694

crummy1718

chubby1722

fodgel1724

well-padded1737

beefy1743

plumpish1753

pudsy1754

rotund1762

portable1770

lusty1777

roundabout1787

well-cushioned1802

plenitudinous1803

stout1804

embonpointc1806

roly-poly1808

adipose1810

roll-about1815

foggy1817

poddy1823

porky1828

hide-blown1834

tubby1835

stoutish1836

tubbish1836

superfatted1841

pottle-bodied1842

pincushiony1851

opulent1882

well-covered1884

well-upholstered1886

butterball1888

endomorphic1888

tisty-tosty1888

pachyntic1890

barrel-bodied1894

overweight1899

pussy-gutted1906

upholstered1924

a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 105 With this rose up..A puffie cheek'd red bearded mannie.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 209 A puffy-faced young man..filled the chair at the head of the table.

1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 260 One of the puffy-bodied, pasty-faced Sunbury lads.

1863 Continental Monthly July 120/1 Strolling..into a Virginia barroom, I accosted a little, puffy-looking man.

1889 Overland Monthly Nov. 506/2 He was entirely too puffy-faced to make much of a show.

1922 H. Crane Let. 27 July (1965) 94 The Man Ray photo of J...is really not a good resemblance. The face is not so puffy-looking.

1926 V. Woolf Writer's Diary (1953) 89 In trotted a little puffy-cheeked cheerful old man [sc. Hardy].

1929 Sunday Disp. 20 Jan. 16/3 You watch the boy growing puffy-eyed and soft on his fast living.

1944 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 28 Jan. a6/6 Plain white organdie makes a puffy sleeved blouse.

1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xv. 300 A young man, puffy-faced and small-eyed.

2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 104 Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway.

C2.

† puffy-light v. Obsolete (transitive) to impart a puffy lightness to (soil).Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 28 Being..intermedled by the plow with the soyle, it puffie-lights and party colours the same.

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

单词	puffy
释义	puffyadj. Brit. /ˈpʌfi/, U.S. /ˈpəfi/ Forms: 1500s–1700s puffie, 1600s– puffy. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: puff n., -y suffix¹. Etymology: < puff n. + -y suffix¹. 1. Suggestive of a puff of wind; empty of substance or worth; inconsequential, vain; (of language or style) overblown, bombastic; (of a person) self-important, pompous, blustering. Cf. puffed adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > self-importance > [adjective] buggish1536 puffya1594 important1726 self-important1732 consequential1758 self-consequent1834 gumptious1853 brussen1897 prima donna1897 prima donna-ish1926 over-inflated1934 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] > inflated or bombastic fleshyc1369 windya1382 unmeasureda1425 puffing1566 embossed1578 puffed1587 bombasted1589 fustian1592 puffya1594 full-mouthed1594 orificial1594 gouty1595 swelling1597 mouth-filling1598 taffeta1598 bombast1601 tiptoe-strouting1602 turgidous1602 swollen1605 dropsieda1616 exsufflicatea1616 turgent1621 ampullous1622 tympanous1625 high-flown1632 tumorousa1637 blustered1638 tumid1648 bombastical1649 ranting1650 inflated1652 tuftaffetya1658 pompiona1670 bombastic1704 dropsical1721 thundering1725 turgid1725 exsuffolate1744 Lexiphanic1767 hi cockalorum1783 Ossianic1788 mouthing1814 mouthy1827 sophomoric1837 highfalutin1839 sophomorical1847 spread eagle1853 tumescent1882 Herodian1886 Ossianesque1889 Barnumesque1890 a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) iii. i. 87 Staye, Yorke, and heare me speake, thie puffie wordes, Thie windie threates, thie raylinge Cvrses, light Vppon thie stubborne necke. 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres ii, in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 48 O worthles puffie slaue! 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Plato in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 321 A Puffy Conceit and Opinion of Knowledge. 1679 J. Dryden Troilus & Cressida Pref. sig. b2^v He distinguish'd not the blown puffy stile, from true sublimity. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III Pref. p. xxv Puffy Pretensions to extraordinary Revelations. a1788 J. Robertson Coll. Comic Songs (1805) 24 A coxcomb's head is chaff,..Too puffy he's by half. 1827 New Monthly Mag. 19 6 This calling upon lads for a style before they have got ideas..is the main cause of the puffy, spungy, spewy, washy style that prevails at the present day. 1856 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 15 Dec. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. v. 173 A rather puffy and consequential man. 1925 Amer. Mercury Dec. 474/2 There is a pursy, puffy, officious, inefficient colonel who clings in the reader's memory almost like an office-mate of Pepys. 1973 Saga-bk. Viking Soc. 18 391 He..remarks, ‘This is fine narrative, gallant, comic, beautiful, deadly, zestful, hard, heady, and precise’—a statement which..employs the puffy epithets of the blurb-writer in place of the language of criticism. 1993 Mother Jones Jan. 39/2 So many corporations are making such puffy noises about how good they are on environmental issues, but not all of them are. 2. a. That is or seems to be puffed up or inflated; swollen, distended, esp. unusually or unnaturally so; having a tendency to swell or puff up; flabby, spongy. Also: puffed or fluffed out; fluffy, light, airy. Cf. puffed adj. 2.In quot. 1598 probably overlapping with sense 1. 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 1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 24 Glittering in dawbed lac'd accoustrements, And pleasing sutes of loues habiliments. Yet puffie as Dutch hose they are within. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 12 House-Spiders..have a very puffy light body of an Oval figure. 1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. i. xxvii. 143 Emphysema is a light puffy Tumour easily yielding to the pressure of your fingers. 1694 W. Salmon tr. Y. van Diemerbroeck Anat. Human Bodies (new ed.) i. 180/2 They are of a ruddy Substance, partly fleshie, partly membranous, soft, puffie, clad with a thin Tunicle. 1712 S. Cobb Callipædia i. 24 No meager bony Jaws deform the Face, Nor puffy Sides the taper Shape disgrace. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 22 Puffy Land, which naturally swells up, instead of subsiding. 1788 G. Colman Ways & Means iii. 41 Before I went over I was as pale and as puffy—flesh without colour, and my face peeping thro' a parcel of wrappers. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 340/2 The oriental train and puffy turban. 1861 Amer. Agriculturist July 206/1 It is want of salt that makes cheese puffy, while too much salt makes the cheese hard. 1874 J. G. Wood Out of Doors 278 The [owl's] round, puffy head, the little hooked beak just appearing from the downy plumage. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 6 Apr. 3/2 The shoulder deserted by the puffy sleeve. 1947 J. Steinbeck Pearl i. 17 His eyes rested in puffy little hammocks of flesh. 1954 G. Durrell Bafut Beagles viii. 143 In the west shoals of narrow, puffy clouds were assembling for what was obviously going to be a glorious sunset. 1982 A. Tyler Dinner at Homesick Restaurant iii. 86 There were two armchairs, puffy. 1996 N. Maraire Zenzele ii. 13 The maid set down a full tray of tea and little puffy scones. †b. Having the quality or property of causing something to swell. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > expansion or enlargement > [adjective] > distending > swelling > causing swelling1398 strutting1567 puffy1718 1718 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 1348 The puffy Poison spreads, and heaves around, Till all the Man is in the Monster drown'd. 3. a. Blowing or emitted in short puffs; gusty. Also: characterized by puffs or gusts of wind.In quot. 1616 in figurative context; cf. windy adj.¹ 7 and sense 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blowing (of wind) > blowing in or characterized by gusts blasty1582 gusty1592 puffy1616 frettinga1665 squally1748 flawy1807 gustful1825 fretfula1849 1616 T. Adams Dis. Soule 33 Hee liues at a high saile, that the puffy praises of his neighbors may blow him into the inchanted Iland, vaineglory. 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids viii. 241 Vulcan in Aeolian puffy plains Thus busie was. 1842 ‘J. Cypress, Jr.’ Sporting Scenes I. ii. 27 Inlets beloved by baymen, safe avenues of escape from the rough assaults of the puffy servants of æolus. 1876 J. S. Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 242 Race not with a ramping might, Like puffy Boreas blowing. 1894 Times 25 July 11 A strong puffy off-shore wind was blowing. 1936 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 28 Sept. (Daily Mag. section) 1/7 Most citizens know little about..the treacherous puffy winds of the Bay region. 1977 Austral. Sailing Jan. 40/2 These high mainsheet tensions require a mast sufficiently flexible to ‘work’ at the tip..in puffy conditions. 1996 Chesapeake Bay Mag. Feb. 18/1 The staysail was completely furled, and the 130-percent Genoa was making the most of the light, puffy air. b. Of a person or animal: breathless, panting; short-winded, prone to breathlessness. Cf. puffed adj. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disordered breathing > [adjective] > of breath: short > affected with windlessa1400 breathlessa1425 short-breathed1470 andless1487 short-windeda1500 short-ended1595 breathed1599 outbreathed1600 strait-winded1601 anhelous1617 anheled1656 anhelant1657 suspirious1657 anhelose1661 blown1674 short-lunged1687 unbreathed1692 puffy1799 puffed1813 scant-of-wind1823 pumped-out1854 winded1883 1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 222 The former gives them [sc. horses] better wind; the latter renders them puffy. 1829 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. II. 692 Abbot showed himself the worse for exertion, and became puffy. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour xii. 58 My oss was rather puffy. 1860 Times 12 June 8/6 Heavy gentlemen of the old school, who grow every day more puffy and asthmatic because they can get nothing to ride. 1999 P. Quarrington Spirit Cabinet 68 His clothes were soaked through with sweat; he was puffy and hacking up sputum. †c. Of a sound: dull, muffled. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] deada1533 sullen1599 wooden1609 flat1626 shallow1626 lumpish1742 dowf1768 toneless1773 deadish1783 insonorous1795 tubby1807 veiled1816 puffy1832 narrow-toned1865 woolly1872 woody1875 dull1878 irresonant1899 1832 D. Brewster Lett. Nat. Magic ix. 220 The glass loses its power of ringing..and emits only a disagreeable and puffy sound. Compounds C1. Parasynthetic and similative in sense 2a, as puffy-bodied, puffy-cheeked, puffy-eyed, puffy-faced, puffy-looking, etc., adjs. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [adjective] > fat or plump fatc893 frimOE fullOE overfatOE greatOE bald1297 roundc1300 encorsivea1340 fattishc1369 fleshyc1369 fleshlyc1374 repletea1398 largec1405 corsious1430 corpulentc1440 corsyc1440 fulsome1447 portlyc1487 corporate1509 foggy fata1529 corsive1530 foggish?1537 plump1545 fatty1552 fleshful1552 pubble1566 plum1570 pursy1576 well-fleshed1576 gross?1577 fog1582 forfatted1586 gulchy1598 bouksome1600 fat-fed1607 meatified1607 chuff1609 plumpya1616 bloat1638 blowze-like1647 obese1651 jollya1661 bloated1664 chubbed1674 pluffya1689 puffya1689 pussy1688 sappy1694 crummy1718 chubby1722 fodgel1724 well-padded1737 beefy1743 plumpish1753 pudsy1754 rotund1762 portable1770 lusty1777 roundabout1787 well-cushioned1802 plenitudinous1803 stout1804 embonpointc1806 roly-poly1808 adipose1810 roll-about1815 foggy1817 poddy1823 porky1828 hide-blown1834 tubby1835 stoutish1836 tubbish1836 superfatted1841 pottle-bodied1842 pincushiony1851 opulent1882 well-covered1884 well-upholstered1886 butterball1888 endomorphic1888 tisty-tosty1888 pachyntic1890 barrel-bodied1894 overweight1899 pussy-gutted1906 upholstered1924 a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 105 With this rose up..A puffie cheek'd red bearded mannie. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xx. 209 A puffy-faced young man..filled the chair at the head of the table. 1859 J. C. Atkinson Walks & Talks Two Schoolboys (1892) 260 One of the puffy-bodied, pasty-faced Sunbury lads. 1863 Continental Monthly July 120/1 Strolling..into a Virginia barroom, I accosted a little, puffy-looking man. 1889 Overland Monthly Nov. 506/2 He was entirely too puffy-faced to make much of a show. 1922 H. Crane Let. 27 July (1965) 94 The Man Ray photo of J...is really not a good resemblance. The face is not so puffy-looking. 1926 V. Woolf Writer's Diary (1953) 89 In trotted a little puffy-cheeked cheerful old man [sc. Hardy]. 1929 Sunday Disp. 20 Jan. 16/3 You watch the boy growing puffy-eyed and soft on his fast living. 1944 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 28 Jan. a6/6 Plain white organdie makes a puffy sleeved blouse. 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xv. 300 A young man, puffy-faced and small-eyed. 2002 J. Eugenides Middlesex ii. 104 Wearing embroidered palikari vest, puffy-sleeved poukamiso, and pleated foustanella skirt, my grandfather bestrides the gangway. C2. † puffy-light v. Obsolete (transitive) to impart a puffy lightness to (soil).Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 28 Being..intermedled by the plow with the soyle, it puffie-lights and party colours the same. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1594
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