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Adjective: puffed púft- Gathered for protruding fullness
- puff 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
See also: fancy, puffer, puffing Type of: blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, elate, gas, gasconade [archaic], inhale, inspire, intoxicate, intumesce, lift up, pick up, praise, shoot a line, skite [Austral, NZ], smoke, swash, swell, swell up, tout, tumefy, tumesce, uplift, vaunt Encyclopedia: Puff, Puff, Pass Puff Puff, the magic dragon Puff, the Magic Dragon |