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Noun: puffing púfing- Blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
"they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing" - An act of forcible exhalation
- huffing, snorting
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
Derived forms: puffings See also: puffer Type of: blow, bluster, boast, brag, breathe in, breathing out, elate, exhalation, expiration, gas, gasconade [archaic], inhale, inspire, intoxicate, intumesce, lift up, pick up, praise, shoot a line, skite [Austral, NZ], smoke, smoking, swash, swell, swell up, tout, tumefy, tumesce, uplift, vaunt Encyclopedia: Puff, Puff, Pass Puff Puff, the magic dragon Puff, the Magic Dragon Puffing |