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Definition of 'puff'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) puff
a short, quick blast or emission of air, smoke, vapor, etc.

2.  puff
a small emission of vapor, smoke, etc.

3.  puff
the sound of an emission of vapor, smoke, etc.

4.  puff
an act of inhaling and exhaling, as on a cigarette or pipe; whiff.

5.  puff
an inflated or distended part of a thing; swelling; protuberance.

6.  puff
a ball of light pastry baked and filled with whipped cream, jam, etc.

7.  puff
a portion of material gathered and held down at the edges but left full in the middle, as on a sleeve.

8.  puff
a cylindrical roll of hair.

9.  puff
a quilted bed covering, usu. filled with down.

10.  puff
a commendation, esp. an exaggerated one, of a book, an actor's performance, etc.

11.  puff
a ball or pad of soft material.

12. (v.i.) puff
to blow with short, quick blasts, as the wind.

13.  puff
to be emitted in a puff.

14.  puff
to emit a puff or puffs of air; breathe quick and hard.

15.  puff
to emit puffs of vapor or smoke.

16.  puff
to go or move with puffing or puffs:
The train puffed into the station.

17.  puff
to take puffs at a cigar, cigarette, etc.

18.  puff
to become inflated or distended (usu. fol. by up).

19. (v.t.) puff
to send forth (air, vapor, etc.) in short, quick blasts.

20.  puff
to drive or impel by puffing, or with a short, quick blast.

21.  puff
to smoke (a cigar, cigarette, etc.).

22.  puff
to inflate or distend, esp. with air.

23.  puff
to make fluffy; fluff (often fol. by up):
to puff up a pillow.

24.  puff
to inflate with pride, vanity, etc. (often fol. by up):
Their applause puffed him up.

25.  puff
to praise unduly.

26.  puff
to arrange in puffs, as the hair.

Etymology: (1175–1225; (v.) ME puffen (cf. MD puffen, LG pof, puf); (n.) ME puf, puffe; of imit. orig.)

Definition of 'puff'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) puff, puff of air, whiff
a short light gust of air

2. (noun) puff
a light inflated pastry or puff shell

3. (noun) puff
exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

4. (noun) quilt, comforter, comfort, puff
bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

5. (noun) powderpuff, puff
a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

6. (noun) ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff, hassock
thick cushion used as a seat

7. (noun) puff, drag, pull
a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
"he took a puff on his pipe"; "he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly"

8. (adj) blow, puff
forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
"he gave his nose a loud blow"; "he blew out all the candles with a single puff"

9. (verb) puff, puffed
gathered for protruding fullness
"puff sleeves"

10. (verb) puff, whiff
smoke and exhale strongly
"puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"

11. (verb) puff, drag, draw
suck in or take (air)
"draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

12. (verb) pant, puff, gasp, heave
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
"The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

13. (verb) puff
make proud or conceited
"The sudden fame puffed her ego"

14. (verb) puff, puff up
praise extravagantly
"The critics puffed up this Broadway production"

15. (verb) puff
speak in a blustering or scornful manner
"A puffing kind of man"

16. (verb) puff, puff up, blow up, puff out
to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"
"puffed out chests"

17. (verb) puff, huff, chuff
blow hard and loudly
"he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

Definition of 'puff'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (verb) puff
to smoke a cigarette or pipe
She stood outside puffing on a cigarette.

2. puff
to breathe fast and hard
He puffed his way up the stairs.

3. (noun) puff
a small amount of smoke or wind
an small explosion followed by a puff of smoke

4. puff
the act of breathing in cigarette or pipe smoke
a few more puffs on his cigarette

Definition of 'puff'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) puff
puffed up; vain

2. (noun) puff
a sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff

3. (noun) puff
anything light and filled with air

4. (noun) puff
a puffball

5. (noun) puff
a kind of light pastry

6. (noun) puff
a utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder

7. (noun) puff
an exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal

8. (noun) puff
to blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs

9. (noun) puff
to blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at

10. (noun) puff
to breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion

11. (noun) puff
to swell with air; to be dilated or inflated

12. (noun) puff
to breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance

13. (verb) puff
to drive with a puff, or with puffs

14. (verb) puff
to repel with words; to blow at contemptuously

15. (verb) puff
to cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air

16. (verb) puff
to inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up

17. (verb) puff
to praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly

Definitions of 'puff'

The New Hacker's Dictionary

1. puff
To decompress data that has been crunched by Huffman coding. At least one widely distributed Huffman decoder program was actually named ‘PUFF’, but these days it is usually packaged with the encoder. Oppose huff, see inflate.

Translation of 'puff'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a small blast of air, wind etc; a gust A puff of wind moved the branches.
Afrikaans: rukwind	Arabic: نَفْخَه، هَبَّه	Bulgarian: полъх
Brazilian: sopro	Czech: závan, poryv	German: der Hauch
Danish: vindpust	Greek: πνοή, φύσημα, ρουφηξιά	Spanish: soplo, racha, ráfaga; boc
Estonian: puhang	Farsi: وزش؛ دمه	Finnish: puuska
French: souffle, bouffée	Hebrew: נְשִיפָה קָלָה	Hindi: फूंक
Hungarian: széllökés	Indonesian: tiupan	Icelandic: hviða, gustur
Italian: soffio	Japanese: ひと吹き	Korean: 한 번 휙 부는 바람
Lithuanian: gūsis, dvelktelėjimas	Latvian: pūsma	Malay: tiupan
Dutch: windstoot	Norwegian: vindpust, drag, blås	Polish: podmuch
Persian: وزش؛ دمه	Pashto: شمال هل	Portuguese: sopro
Romanian: adiere, rafală	Russian: дуновение ветра	Slovak: závan
Slovenian: pihljaj	Serbian: dašak	Swedish: pust
Thai: ลมหรือควันที่พัดมา	Turkish: esinti, püfürtü	Taiwanese: (一)噴，(一)吹，一陣(風)，一股(氣味、煙霧等
Ukrainian: подув	Urdu: جھونکا	Vietnamese: luồng gió thổi
Chinese: （一）喷，（一）吹，一阵（风），一股（气味、烟雾等
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