puffy
/ˈpʌfi
/adjective (puffier, puffiest)
1(Especially of part of the body) unusually swollen: her eyes were puffy and full of tears...
- You have to poke them and watch their soft puffy bodies give away and bounce back, hypnotizing you into taking them home and daring you to eat them.
- His right eye is swollen, puffy and seeping something murky.
- His once slender face, embedded in our hearts and minds from the extensive news coverage, was now puffy and swollen.
Synonyms
swollen, puffed up, distended, enlarged, full, inflated, dilated, bloated, engorged, bulging, baggy
rare tumid, turgescent, tumescent, tumefied, oedematous, ventricose
2Soft, rounded, and light: small puffy clouds...
- Her voice was light and soft as a puffy white cloud.
- The sky was filled with all sorts of red and orange mixture and soon the sky was filled with puffy soft clouds and twinkling stars.
- Blue sky, soft, puffy clouds of white with the slightest hint of purple in them.
2.1(Of a garment) padded or gathered to give a rounded shape: a puffy blue ski-jacket...
- You'll never again have to wear three sweaters and a puffy jacket to look wide.
- But ‘marriage’ is not necessarily defined as frocking up in a white puffy gown and waltzing down the aisle.
- Plus, I think I could carry off the pirate look, puffy shirt and all.
3(Of wind or breath) coming in short bursts: his breath was puffy and fast...
- She was squinting in the sun, saying she'd warmed to that photogenic blue sky / puffy breath combo.
- He got all puffy and started breathing hard again.
Derivatives
puffily
- A diesel locomotive crawls puffily onto the track next to them, and every one of the seven instantly snaps to attention.
- ‘Big thoughts of today's big thinkers’ is how they puffily describe it.
- The dough, buoyed by the ridiculous quantity of yeast, practically exploded out of the bowl - billowing puffily upwards with what looked like almost unrestrained glee.
puffiness
/ noun ...- You could experience digestive problems, low energy, brain fog, high cholesterol, low blood pressure, pain in the muscles and joints, allergies, puffiness and swelling.
- Signs that we're burning the candle at both ends often show up in and around the eyes as redness, puffiness and dark circles.
- I applied lots of foundation to cover up the puffiness and redness around my eyes.
Rhymes
- Clare, John
- Claremont
- clarence
- Clarenceux
- Clarendon, Earl of
- Clare of Assisi, St
- claret
- clarification
- clarificatory
- clarifier
- clarify
- clarinet
- clarinettist
- clarion
- clarion call
- clarity
- Clarke, John Hessin
- Clarke, Sir Arthur C.
- Clark Fork River
- Clark, George Rogers
- Clark, Helen
- clarkia
- Clark, Joe
- Clark, Mark Wayne
- Clarksville