What is the meaning of the word "puff"?
Definitions:
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a slow inhalation, as of tobacco smoke noun
- They took a puff on their pipe.
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blow hard and loudly verb
- We huffed and puffed as we made our way up the mountain.
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gathered for protruding fullness adjective
- puff sleeves
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make proud or conceited verb
- The sudden fame puffed their ego.
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praise extravagantly verb
- The critics puffed up this Broadway production
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smoke and exhale strongly verb
- puff a cigar
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speak in a blustering or scornful manner verb
- A puffing kind of man
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to swell or cause to enlarge, 'Her faced puffed up from the drugs' verb
- puffed out chests
Synonyms:
- blow
- chuff
- comfort
- drag
- hassock
- heave
- huff
- ottoman
- pouf
- pouffe
- powderpuff
- puff out
- puff up
- puffed
- pull
- whiff