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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Puff  \Puff\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Puffed}  (p[u^]ft);  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Puffing}.]  [Akin  to  G.  puffen  to  pop,  buffet,  puff, 
  D.  poffen  to  pop,  puffen  to  blow,  Sw  puffa  to  push  to  cuff, 
  Dan.  puffe  to  pop,  thump.  See  {Puff},  n.] 
  1.  To  blow  in  puffs,  or  with  short  and  sudden  whiffs. 
 
  2.  To  blow,  as  an  expression  of  scorn;  --  with  at 
 
  It  is  really  to  defy  Heaven  to  puff  at  damnation. 
  --South. 
 
  3.  To  breathe  quick  and  hard,  or  with  puffs,  as  after  violent 
  exertion. 
 
  The  ass  comes  back  again  puffing  and  blowing,  from 
  the  chase.  --L'  Estrange. 
 
  4.  To  swell  with  air;  to  be  dilated  or  inflated.  --Boyle. 
 
  5.  To  breathe  in  a  swelling,  inflated,  or  pompous  manner; 
  hence  to  assume  importance. 
 
  Then  came  brave  Glory  puffing  by  --Herbert. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  puffed 
  adj  1:  abnormally  distended  especially  by  fluids  or  gas;  "hungry 
  children  with  bloated  stomachs";  "he  had  a  grossly 
  distended  stomach";  "eyes  with  puffed  (or  puffy) 
  lids";  "swollen  hands";  "tumescent  tissue";  "puffy 
  tumid  flesh"  [syn:  {bloated},  {distended},  {puffy},  {swollen}, 
  {tumescent},  {tumid}] 
  2:  gathered  for  protruding  fullness;  "puff  sleeves"  [syn:  {puff}] 




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