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US
/ˈpəf/
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[ UK /pˈʌf/ ]
[ UK /pˈʌf/ ]
VERB
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blow hard and loudly
he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain -
suck in or take (air)
draw on a cigarette
draw a deep breath -
speak in a blustering or scornful manner
A puffing kind of man -
praise extravagantly
The critics puffed up this Broadway production -
smoke and exhale strongly
whiff a pipe
puff a cigar -
breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily -
make proud or conceited
The sudden fame puffed her ego -
to swell or cause to enlarge
puffed out chests
Her faced puffed up from the drugs
NOUN
- a short light gust of air
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
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a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
he took a drag on his cigarette and expelled the smoke slowly
he took a puff on his pipe - thick cushion used as a seat
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
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forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
he blew out all the candles with a single puff
he gave his nose a loud blow - exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
ADJECTIVE
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gathered for protruding fullness
puff sleeves
How To Use puff In A Sentence
- The bombardment of the GPO had fascinated MacMurrough: the annunciatory puffs of smoke and the flames that roared to greet them; then the crashing gun’s report, the shell’s eruption—an illogical sequence, effect before cause, an object lesson in the madness of war. At Swim, Two Boys
- A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
- The six-inch white plastic stick uses a battery-powered atomiser to create realistic puffs of "smoke," while the tip glows red with each suck. The Cigarette That’s Legal Indoors | Impact Lab
- The sky began to clear and there were puffy white clouds forming as the evening faded away.
- There wasn't a puff of wind for most of an unseasonally cold day and the heavy overnight rain had softened both the fairways and greens to make them more receptive.
- Other numerous species include the yellowbilled diver Gavia adamsii, whooper swan Cygnus cygnus, lesser whitefronted goose Anser erythropus, slatybacked gull Larus Schistisagus, Kamchatka tern Sterna camtschatica, guillemot Uria aalge, thickbilled guillemot Uria lomvia, pigeon guillemot Cepphus columbs, ancient murrelet Synthliboramphus antiquus, horned puffin Fratercula Corniculata and tufted puffin Lunda cirrhata. Volcanoes of Kamchatka, Russian Federation
- Like all the meals, the jerk comes with red peas (kidney beans) and rice, as well as plantains that are puffy, soft, and sweet like caramel.
- Imagine trying to photograph a large pufferfish with the final frame while an eagle ray circles round your head - much to the amusement of the other divers from the boat.
- It is becoming a taboo habit now and there are far more non-smokers than puffers.
- Anyway, today we made a pistachio dacquoise (remember that a dacquoise is a meringue--whipped egg whites--with sugar and nut flour(s) folded into it), an apricot-passion-fruit gelee, some apricot glaze, two sablee dough shells (we didn't get to do those, as the only sablee dough left was too soft to work with, so we'll do it tomorrow), and each of us made an inverted puff pastry recipe and put four turns in the dough. Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts
