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单词 puft
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puftn.

Forms: late Middle English pufte, late Middle English–1600s (1800s poetic) puft; Scottish pre-1700 pufte, pre-1700 1700s puft.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: puff n.
Etymology: Variant of puff n. (see discussion at tuft n.).
Obsolete.
= puff n. (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > exhalation > [noun]
pufflOE
fnastinga1382
pufta1425
blasting1535
outbreathing1574
efflation1578
expiration1603
perspiration1611
expiring1661
flatus1692
exhalation1742
utterance1844
poof1864
pew1932
the world > matter > gas > [noun] > fumes or vapour > action of being emitted or emitting > act of emitting abruptly
pufflOE
pufta1425
a1425 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (Pierpont Morgan) f. 218v Þat tyme frute falleþ with litel schakynge, as with a stronge blaste oþer a pufte [a1398 BL Add. puf] of wynde [L. venti impulsu].
?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 2648 (MED) All his webb þat he [sc. the spider] weues, A puft of wynde away reues.
a1500 Ancrene Riwle (Royal) 31 Thynke also þat word is..bot as a poudre and dust þat a litel puft of wynde may ouercum.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xii. 122 With a puft of aynd, the lyfe furth went.
1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. x. 75 Vaporous pufts coursing hither & thither thorow the body, with pain & anguishes, are greatly to be feared.
a1627 W. Fowler tr. Petrarch Triumphs in Wks. (1914) I. 125 Confused dreams, and pufts of winde.
1638 I. Jones & W. Davenant Britannia Triumphans 21 On this was an under basis with labels of Carnation embroidered with silver, and betwixt every paine were pufts of silver fastned in knots to the labels.
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina iv. 351 Which information posts him away, (his light body being easily blown away by the least puft of perswasion).
1785 R. Forbes Ulysses 19 A puft o' wind ye cudna get, To gar your cannas wag.
1795 A. Shirrefs Sale Catal. 14 Shirrefs could but creep behind, And get a puft of the same wind.
1876 W. Thornbury Hist. & Legendary Ballads & Songs 248 Robin, with breast in a red, red puft, Tunes, and carols, and sings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

puftv.

Forms: 1500s–1600s puft; Scottish pre-1700 pufte, 1700s puft.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item.
Etymology: Variant of puff v. Compare earlier puft n.
Chiefly Scottish. Obsolete.
transitive and intransitive = puff v. (in various senses).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > swelling or inflation with pride > inflate with pride [verb (transitive)]
swellc1200
bolnea1340
inblowc1384
blow1388
embolne1430
puff1526
inflate1530
puft1563
tympanize1593
overleaven1604
bladder1610
hufflea1652
bloat1677
the world > matter > gas > air > moving air > move (of air) [verb (intransitive)] > produce current of air > produce a puff
puffOE
puft1563
1563 G. Hay Confut. Abbote of Crosraguels Masse f. 12v But that he sees the murgeons played, a disguysed preist, somtymes pufting, somtymes blawing.
1581 J. Hamilton in Catholik Traictise 78 Thaj..ar sa puftit vp in thair auin opinion, that [etc.]
1597 H. Constable Poems (1859) 52 As the prynce of angells, puft'd with pryde.
1600 J. Hamilton Facile Traictise 138 Albeit the spirit of arrogancie puftes vp the enimies of Christs treu kirk.
1653 R. Flecknoe Miscellania 77 The style..of Queen Elizabeths dayes, flaunting and pufted like her Apparell.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 269/1 Thresh not Wheat but as you Eat it, for fear of Pufting and Fustiness.
1703 Self-murder 2/1 Can there be plainer vain-glorious, Self-conceitedness, than thus to be pufted up with the imaginarie mightie Feates of his Learning.
a1720 W. Dunlop Serm. (1722) I. 199 The Rich and Great are vain of their Honours, and pufted up by the Pomp and Splendor of their Character.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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