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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
puffing
n 1: blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the
room with their ceaseless puffing"
2: an act of forcible exhalation [syn: puffing, huffing,
snorting]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
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It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
--South.
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3. To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent
exertion.
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The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from
the chase. --L' Estrange.
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4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated. --Boyle.
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5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner;
hence, to assume importance.
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Then came brave Glory puffing by. --Herbert.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Puffing \Puff"ing\,
a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t.
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Puffing adder. (Zool.) Same as Puff adder
(b), under Puff.
Puffing pig (Zool.), the common porpoise.
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Thesaurus Results for puffing:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
asthmatic, blurb, breathing, breathless, errhine, expiratory, heaving, huffing, inspiratory, nasal, out of breath, panting, plug, pneumonic, pulmonary, pulmonic, respiratory, rhinal, short-breathed, short-winded, sneezy, sniffling, sniffly, sniffy, snoring, snorting, snuffling, snuffly, snuffy, sternutatory, stertorous, wheezing, wheezy, winded, write-up |
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