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单词 puff
释义 Verb: puff  púf
  1. Smoke and exhale strongly
    "puff a cigar"
    - whiff 
  2. Suck in or take (air)
    - drag, draw 
  3. Breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
    - pant, gasp, heave 
  4. Make proud or conceited
    "The sudden fame puffed her ego" 
  5. Praise extravagantly
    "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"
    - puff up 
  6. Speak in a blustering or scornful manner
    "A puffing kind of man" 
  7. To swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
    "puffed out chests"
    - puff up, blow up, puff out 
  8. Blow hard and loudly
    "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"
    - huff, chuff
Noun: puff  púf
  1. A short light gust of air
    - puff of air, whiff 
  2. A light inflated pastry or puff shell 
  3. Exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes) 
  4. Bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
    - quilt, comforter, comfort 
  5. A soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
    - powderpuff 
  6. Thick cushion used as a seat
    - ottoman, pouf, pouffe [Brit], hassock 
  7. A slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
    "he took a puff on his pipe"
    - drag, pull 
  8. Forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
    "he blew out all the candles with a single puff"
    - blow
Adjective: puff  púf
  1. Gathered for protruding fullness
    "puff sleeves"
    - puffed

Derived forms: puffing, puffed, puffs

See also: fancy, puffer, puffing, puffy

Type of: aspiration, bed clothing, bedclothes, bedding, blast, blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, breathing in, breathing out, elate, exhalation, expiration, gas, gasconade [archaic], good word, gust, inhalation, inhale, inspiration, inspire, intake, intoxicate, intumesce, lift up, pad, pastry, pick up, praise, recommendation, seat, shoot a line, skite [Austral, NZ], smoke, swash, swell, swell up, testimonial, tout, tumefy, tumesce, uplift, vaunt

Part of: smoke, smoking

Encyclopedia: Puff, Puff, Pass Puff Puff, the magic dragon Puff, the Magic Dragon

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