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