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puffy

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Puffy  \Puff"y\,  a. 
  1.  Swelled  with  air,  or  any  soft  matter;  tumid  with  a  soft 
  substance;  bloated;  fleshy;  as  a  puffy  tumor.  ``  A  very 
  stout,  puffy  man.''  --Thackeray. 
 
  2.  Hence  inflated;  bombastic;  as  a  puffy  style. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  puffy 
  adj  1:  being  puffed  out  used  of  hair  style  or  clothing;  "a 
  bouffant  skirt"  [syn:  {bouffant}] 
  2:  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},  {puffed},  {swollen},  {tumescent}, 
  {tumid}] 
  3:  breathing  heavily  [syn:  {huffing},  {puffing}]




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