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puffed |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Puff \Puff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Puffed} (p[u^]ft); p. pr & vb n. {Puffing}.] [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.] 1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs. 2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation. --South. 3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion. The ass comes back again puffing and blowing, from the chase. --L' Estrange. 4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. --Boyle. 5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence to assume importance. Then came brave Glory puffing by --Herbert. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: puffed adj 1: 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" [syn: {bloated}, {distended}, {puffy}, {swollen}, {tumescent}, {tumid}] 2: gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: {puff}]
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