puffy (redirected from puffier)

puff  (pf)

n.

1.

a. A short forceful exhalation of breath.

b. A short sudden gust of wind.

c. A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.

d. A short sibilant sound produced by a puff.

2. An amount of vapor, smoke, or similar material released in a puff.

3. An act of drawing in and expelling the breath, as in smoking tobacco.

4. A swelling or rounded protuberance.

5. Puff pastry.

6. A light soft pad for applying powder or lotion.

7. A gathered, protruding portion of fabric.

8. A light padded bed covering.

9.

a. An approving or flattering recommendation.

b. A piece of writing, as on the jacket of a book, containing often exaggerated praise, used for promotional purposes.

10. Genetics A localized region of swelling in certain chromosomes indicating the active synthesis of RNA.

v. puffed, puff·ing, puffs

v.intr.

1. To blow in puffs.

2. To come forth in puffs: steam puffing from an engine.

3. To breathe forcefully and rapidly: huffed and puffed up the stairs.

4. To emit puffs.

5. To take puffs on smoking material: puffing on a cigar.

6. To swell or seem to swell, as with pride or air. Often used with up: He puffed up and glared at the importuning questioner.

v.tr.

1. To emit or give forth in puffs.

2. To impel with puffs.

3. To smoke (a cigar, for example).

4. To inflate or distend.

5. To fill with pride or conceit.

6. To publicize with often exaggerated praise: publishers who puff their new books.

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[From Middle English puffen, to puff, from Old English pyffan, perhaps of imitative origin.]

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puffi·ly adv.

puffi·ness n.

puffy adj.

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puffy [ˈpʌfɪ]

adj puffier, puffiest

1. short of breath

2. swollen or bloated a puffy face

3. pompous or conceited

4. blowing in gusts

puffily  adv

puffiness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	puffy - being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" bouffant big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"
	2.	puffy - 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" intumescent, tumescent, tumid, turgid unhealthy - not in or exhibiting good health in body or mind; "unhealthy ulcers"
	3.	puffy - blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts; "puffy off-shore winds"; "gusty winds " gusty stormy - (especially of weather) affected or characterized by storms or commotion; "a stormy day"; "wide and stormy seas"

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puffy

adjective swollen, enlarged, inflated, inflamed, bloated, puffed up, distended Her cheeks were puffy with crying.

Translations

puffy [ˈpʌfɪ] ADJ (puffier (compar) (puffiest (superl))) [eye etc] → hinchado

puffy [ˈpʌfi] adj [face, eyes] → bouffi(e)

puffy

adj (+er)

(= swollen) → geschwollen; face, eyes also → verschwollen; (from crying) → verquollen

(= voluminous) cloud → bauschig; puffy sleeve → Puffärmel m

puffy [ˈpʌfɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) → gonfio/a