1. Gathered for protruding fullness
   - puff

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

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

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