[
UK
/pˈʌfɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈpəfɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈpəfɪŋ/ ]
NOUN
- an act of forcible exhalation
-
blowing tobacco smoke out into the air
they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing
How To Use puffing In A Sentence
- A battery powers an atomizer which is triggered by "puffing" on the cartridge of the device. Health and Medical Online News, Reports and Information
- This may be because when he started mixing up a bucket in the new kitchen, billows of dust began puffing under the doors onto my new upstairs carpets.
- A puffing kind of man
- After a lot of huffing and puffing, he eventually gave in to our request.
- It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.
- The Dynamo was accustomed to puffing his way through 40 unfiltered cigarettes a day, mainly in his office or his car, both now out of bounds.
- He filled it with tobacco and lit it, puffing the sweet smelling smoke around the car.
- He once suggested that my brother handle a bully by puffing up his chest and announcing, ‘If you come near me, I'll expectorate in your countenance.’
- During rush hour in the mornings and afternoons, Caribbean cities are dominated by metal, plastic and rubber objects, puffing hydrocarbons and other gases into the atmosphere.
- He came puffing up the stairs.