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单词 puff
释义

puff1/puf/ verb intrans

to exhale or blow forcibly

to breathe hard and quickly; to pant

to emit small whiffs or clouds, e.g. of smoke or steam

to move while emitting puffs of smoke, etc

to blow in short gusts

(usu + out/up) to become distended; to swell

(usu + out/up) to distend (something) with air or gas, or as if with air or gas; to inflate

to draw on (a pipe, cigarette, etc) with intermittent exhalations of smoke

to praise (somebody or something) extravagantly and usu exaggeratedly, or to advertise (somebody or something) by this means

verb trans

to emit, propel, or blow (something) by puffs or as if by puffs

to draw on (a pipe, cigarette, etc) with intermittent exhalations of smoke

(usu + out/up) to inflate or distend (something) with or as if with air or gas

(usu + up) to make (somebody) proud or conceited

to praise (somebody or something) extravagantly and usu exaggeratedly, or to advertise (something) in this way

to make (one's way) emitting puffs of breath or smoke

(+ out) to extinguish (a candle, etc) by blowing

puffer noun
[Old English pyffan, of imitative origin]

puff2noun

the act or an instance of puffing

a slight explosive sound accompanying a puff

a small cloud, e.g. of smoke, emitted in a puff

a draw on a pipe or cigarette; a smoke

a light round hollow pastry made of puff pastry

chiefly Brit, informal one's breath

waited to get my puff back

a highly favourable notice or review, esp one that publicizes something or somebody

= pouffe

= powder puff

NAmer a quilted bed cover; an eiderdown

informal = poof

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