Definitions for PUFF
pʌfpuff

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. puff, puff of air, whiffnoun

   a short light gust of air

2. puffnoun

   a light inflated pastry or puff shell

3. puffnoun

   exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)

4. quilt, comforter, comfort, puffnoun

   bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together

5. powderpuff, puffnoun

   a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin

6. ottoman, pouf, pouffe, puff, hassocknoun

   thick cushion used as a seat

7. puff, drag, pullnoun

   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. blow, puffadjective

   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. puff, puffedverb

   gathered for protruding fullness

   "puff sleeves"

10. puff, whiffverb

    smoke and exhale strongly

    "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"

11. puff, drag, drawverb

    suck in or take (air)

    "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette"

12. pant, puff, gasp, heaveverb

    breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted

    "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily"

13. puffverb

    make proud or conceited

    "The sudden fame puffed her ego"

14. puff, puff upverb

    praise extravagantly

    "The critics puffed up this Broadway production"

15. puffverb

    speak in a blustering or scornful manner

    "A puffing kind of man"

16. puff, puff up, blow up, puff outverb

    to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"

    "puffed out chests"

17. puff, huff, chuffverb

    blow hard and loudly

    "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. puffnoun

   A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.

2. puffnoun

   The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.

   out of puff

3. puffnoun

   A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.

4. puffnoun

   An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.

5. puffnoun

   A flamboyant or alluring statement about an object's quality.

6. puffnoun

   The drug cannabis.

7. puffnoun

   A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.

   cream puff

8. puffnoun

   a homosexual; a poof

9. puffnoun

   life

10. puffverb

    To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.

11. puffverb

    To pant.

12. puffverb

    To advertise

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PUFFnoun

   Etymology: pof, Dutch, a blast which swells the checks.

   1. A quick blast with the mouth.

   In garret vile, he with a warming puff
   Regales chill’d fingers. Philips.

   2. A small blast of wind.

   The Rosemary, in the days of Henry VII. with a sudden puff of wind stooped her side, and took in water at her ports in such abundance, as that she instantly sunk. Walter Raleigh.

   The naked breathless body lies,
   To every puff of wind a slave,
   At the beck of every wave,
   That once perhaps was fair, rich, stout and wise. Thomas Flatman.

   A puff of wind blows off cap and wig. Roger L'Estrange.

   There fierce winds o’er dusky vallies blow,
   Whose every puff bears empty shades away. Dryden.

   With one fierce puff he blows the leaves away,
   Expos’d the self-discover’d infant lay. Dryden.

   3.A mushroom. Robert Ainsworth4. Any thing light and porous: as, puff paste.5.Something to sprinkle powder on the hair. Robert Ainsworth

2. To Puffverb

   1. To swell as with wind.

   Let him fall by his own greatness,
   And puff him up with glory, till it swell
   And break him. John Denham, Sophy.

   Flattering of others, and boasting of ourselves, may be referred to lying; the one to please others, and puff them up with self-conceit; the other to gain more honour than is due to ourselves. John Ray, on the Creation.

   2. To drive or agitate with blasts of wind.

   I have seen the cannon,
   When it has blown his ranks into the air,
   And from his arm pufft his own brother. William Shakespeare.

   Have I not heard the sea, puff’d up with winds,
   Rage like an angry boar chased with sweat? William Shakespeare.

   Th’ unerring sun by certain signs declares,
   When the South projects a stormy day,
   And when the clearing North will puff the clouds away. John Dryden, Virgil’s Georgicks.

   Why must the winds all hold their tongue?
   If they a little breath should raise,
   Would that have spoil’d the poet’s song,
   Or puff’d away the monarch’s praise? Matthew Prior.

   I have been endeavouring very busily to raise a friendship, which the first breath of any ill-natured by-stander could puff away. Alexander Pope.

   3. To drive with a blast of breath scornfully.

   When she dances in the wind,
   And shakes her wings, and will not stay,
   I puff the prostitute away;
   The little or the much she gave is quietly resign’d. Dryd.

   4. To swell or blow up with praise.

   The attendants of courts engage them in quarrels of jurisdiction, being truly parasiti curiæ, in puffing a court up beyond her bounds for their own advantage. Francis Bacon.

   5. To swell or elate with pride.

   His looke like a coxcombe up puffed with pride. Thomas Tusser.

   This army, led by a tender prince,
   Whose spirit with divine ambition pufft,
   Makes mouths at the invisible event. William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

   Think not of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up one against another. 1 Cor. iv. 6.

   Your ancestors, who puff your mind with pride,
   Did not your honour, but their own advance. Dryden.

   Who stands safest; tell me, is it he
   That spreads and swells in puff’d posterity? Alexander Pope.

   The Phæacians were so puffed up with their constant felicity, that they thought nothing impossible. William Broome.

3. To Puffverb

   Etymology: boffen, Dutch.

   1. To swell the cheeks with wind.2. To blow with a quick blast.

   Wherefore do you follow her,
   Like foggy South puffing with wind and rain. William Shakespeare.

   Distinction with a broad and powerful fan,
   Puffing at all, winnows the light away. William Shakespeare.

   3. To blow with scornfulness.

   Some puff at these instances, as being such as were under a different œconomy of religion, and consequently not directly pertinent to ours. Robert South, Sermons.

   It is really to defy heaven, to puff at damnation, and bid omnipotence do its worst. South.

   4. To breathe thick and hard.

   Seldshown flamins
   Do press among the popular throngs, and puff
   To win a vulgar station. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase. Roger L'Estrange.

   A true son of the church
   Came puffing with his greasy bald-pate choir,
   And fumbling o’er his beads. Dryden.

   5. To do or move with hurry, tumour, or tumultuous agitation.

   More unconstant than the wind, who woes
   Ev’n now the frozen bosom of the North,
   And, being anger’d, puffs away from thence,
   Turning his face to the dew-dropping South. William Shakespeare.

   Then came brave glory puffing by
   In silks that whistled, who but he?
   He scarce allow’d me half an eye. George Herbert.

   6. To swell with the wind.

   A new coal is not to be cast on the nitre, till the detonation be quite ended; unless the puffing matter blow the coal out of the crucible. Boyle.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puff

   "Puff, the Magic Dragon (or "Puff") is a song written by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow, and made popular by Yarrow's group Peter, Paul and Mary in a 1962 recording released in January 1963. Lipton wrote a poem in 1959; Yarrow found it and wrote the lyrics based on the poem. After the song was released, Yarrow searched for Lipton and gave him half-credit for the song.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. puff

   A puff generally refers to a short, quick blast or emission of air, smoke, vapor, or any form of gas. It can also refer to a small, soft, rounded piece or object, such as a puff of cotton or a puff pastry. In addition, puff can denote a gesture of drawing in and expelling breath in a short burst, as in smoking a cigarette or pipe.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puffnoun

   a sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff

2. Puffnoun

   anything light and filled with air

3. Puffnoun

   a puffball

4. Puffnoun

   a kind of light pastry

5. Puffnoun

   a utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder

6. Puffnoun

   an exaggerated or empty expression of praise, especially one in a public journal

7. Puffnoun

   to blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs

8. Puffnoun

   to blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at

9. Puffnoun

   to breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion

10. Puffnoun

    to swell with air; to be dilated or inflated

11. Puffnoun

    to breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance

12. Puffverb

    to drive with a puff, or with puffs

13. Puffverb

    to repel with words; to blow at contemptuously

14. Puffverb

    to cause to swell or dilate; to inflate; to ruffle with puffs; -- often with up; as, a bladder puffed with air

15. Puffverb

    to inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, or the like; -- often with up

16. Puffverb

    to praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly

17. Puffadjective

    puffed up; vain

18. Etymology: [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.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Puff

   puf, v.i. to blow in puffs or whiffs: to swell or fill with air: to breathe with vehemence: to blow at, in contempt: to bustle about.—v.t. to drive with a puff: to swell with a wind: to praise in exaggerated terms.—n. a sudden, forcible breath: a sudden blast of wind: a gust or whiff: a fungus ball containing dust: anything light and porous, or swollen and light: a kind of light pastry: a part of a fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle: a light ball or pad for dusting powder on the skin, &c.: an exaggerated expression of praise.—ns. Puff′-add′er, a large, venomous African serpent; Puff′-ball, a dried fungus, ball-shaped and full of dust; Puff′-bird, a South American bird resembling the kingfisher in form, but living on insects; Puff′-box, a box for holding powder for the toilet, and a puff for applying it.—adj. Puffed, gathered up into rounded ridges, as a sleeve.—ns. Puff′er, one who puffs: one who raises the prices at an auction in order to excite the eagerness of the bidders to the advantage of the seller; Puff′ery, puffing or extravagant praise.—adv. Puff′ily.—ns. Puff′iness, state of being puffy or turgid: intumescence; Puff′ing, the act of praising extravagantly.—adv. Puff′ingly.—n. Puff′-paste, a short flaky paste for pastry.—adj. Puff′y, puffed out with air or any soft matter: tumid: bombastic: coming in puffs.—Puff up (B.), to inflate. [Imit.; cf. Ger. puffen, &c.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. puff

   A sudden gust of wind. A whistle of steam.

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1. puff

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2. PUFF

   What does PUFF stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the PUFF acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. PUFF

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Puff is ranked #26833 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Puff surname appeared 906 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Puff.
   
   94.5% or 857 total occurrences were White.
   1.8% or 17 total occurrences were Black.
   1.4% or 13 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.3% or 12 total occurrences were Asian.

Matched Categories

1. • Bedclothes
   • Blow
   • Boast
   • Elate
   • Pad
   • Pastry
   • Recommendation
   • Seat

How to pronounce PUFF?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say PUFF in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of PUFF in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of PUFF in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of PUFF in a Sentence

1. Loran Smith:

   When it was time to huff and puff, he knew what we wanted, ... He wasn't gonna quit until he got 'em all out.

2. Christian Petroni:

   When you blast the pizza with high heat quickly, it allows the dough to puff up, and really replicates a Neapolitan-style pizza.

3. David Russell:

   Most of them wanted a cigarette, and I didn’t smoke at that time but I, uh, I got a pack of cigarettes and some matches, and I lit their cigarettes for them, you feel for those guys, but I couldn’t do anything. Just light a cigarette for ’em and let ’em puff the cigarettes.

4. Alasdair Hainsworth:

   It's hard to say that that is necessarily going to occur, but certainly the conditions are there, you'd think that it has just about run out of puff by now because the sun is moving rapidly south, but it does appear that the environment at the present time is highly conducive to these circulations.

5. June Jordan:

   anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=PUFF
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Puff
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=PUFF
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puff
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/PUFF
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=PUFF
8. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Puff
9. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=PUFF
10. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html