pufy.html - {adj.} Elated; proud; conceited. * /Just because Bob inherited some money from his father is no reason for him to act so puffed up./

pufy.html - noun
Also written puffball (Lifestyle and Leisure) A short full skirt which is gathered in at the hemline to produce a soft puffy effect; a balloon skirt. (Usually attributive, in puff-ball dress or puff-ball skirt.) Etymology: So named because the resulting shape of the garment is like that of the puff-ball fungus. History and Usage: The puff-ball has been known to fashion designers under this name since the sixties; it enjoyed a brief fashion in 1986-8 after being promoted by a number of the top Paris designers, and this brought the word into the news. Christian Lacroix, the Paris designer, ...is credited with introducing the pouffe, otherwise known as the puffball, into the grandest parties. The Times 9 June 1987, p.
25 She has abandoned skintight leathers and puffball minis, platinum rinses and bootlace ties. Sunday Mail (Brisbane)
16 Oct. 1988, p. 17

pufy.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a a short quick blast of breath or wind. b the sound of this; a similar sound. c a small quantity of vapour, smoke, etc., emitted in one blast (went up in a puff of smoke).
2 a cake etc. containing jam, cream, etc., and made of light esp. puff pastry.
3 a gathered mass of material in a dress etc. (puff sleeve).
4 a rolled protuberant mass of hair.
5 a an extravagantly enthusiastic review of a book etc., esp. in a newspaper. b an advertisement for goods etc., esp. in a newspaper.
6 = powder-puff.
7 US an eiderdown.
8 colloq. one's life (in all my puff).

--v.

1 intr. emit a puff of air or breath; blow with short blasts.
2 intr. (usu. foll. by away, out, etc.) (of a person smoking, a steam engine, etc.) emit or move with puffs (puffing away at his cigar; a train puffed out of the station).
3 tr. (usu. in passive; often foll. by out) put out of breath (arrived somewhat puffed; completely puffed him out).
4 intr. breathe hard; pant.
5 tr. utter pantingly ('No more,' he puffed).
6 intr. & tr. (usu. foll. by up, out) become or cause to become inflated; swell (his eye was inflamed and puffed up; puffed up the balloon).
7 tr. (usu. foll. by out, up, away) blow or emit (dust, smoke, a light object, etc.) with a puff.
8 tr. smoke (a pipe etc.) in puffs.
9 tr. (usu. as puffed up adj.) elate; make proud or boastful.
10 tr. advertise or promote (goods, a book, etc.) with exaggerated or false praise.

puff-adder a large venomous African viper, Bitis arietans, which inflates the upper part of its body and hisses when excited. puff and blow = sense 4 of v. puff-ball any of various fungi having a ball-shaped spore case. puff pastry light flaky pastry. puff-puff Brit. a childish word for a steam-engine or train. puff up = sense 9 of v. [ME puf, puffe, perh. f. OE, imit. of the sound of breath]

pufy.html - n.
1 a person or thing that puffs.
2 = puff-puff.

puffer-fish = globe-fish.

pufy.html - n.
any of various sea birds of the family Alcidae native to the N. Atlantic and N. Pacific, esp. Fratercula arctica, having a large head with a brightly coloured triangular bill, and black and white plumage. [ME poffin, pophyn, of unkn. orig.]

pufy.html - adj.
(puffier, puffiest)
1 swollen, esp. of the face etc.
2 fat.
3 gusty.
4 short-winded; puffed out.

puffily adv. puffiness n.