Definitions for Puff

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Puff puff

Spelling: [puhf]

IPA: /pʌf/

Puff is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 9 anagrams from letters in Puff (ffpu).

Definitions for Puff

noun

1. a short, quick blast, as of wind or breath.
2. an abrupt emission of air, smoke, vapor, etc.
3. an act of inhaling and exhaling, as on a cigarette or pipe; whiff.
4. the sound of an abrupt emission of air, vapor, etc.
5. a small quantity of vapor, smoke, etc., emitted at one blast.
6. an inflated or distended part of a thing; swelling; protuberance.
7. a form of light pastry with a filling of cream, jam, or the like.
8. a portion of material gathered and held down at the edges but left full in the middle, as on a sleeve.
9. a cylindrical roll of hair.
10. a quilted bed covering, usually filled with down.
11. a commendation, especially an exaggerated one, of a book, an actor's performance, etc.
12. powder puff.
13. a ball or pad of soft material.
14. puffball.
15. Chiefly British Slang. a male homosexual.

verb (used with object)

1. to send forth (air, vapor, etc.) in short, quick blasts.
2. to drive or impel by puffing, or with a short, quick blast.
3. to extinguish by means of a puff (usually followed by out):
4. to smoke (a cigar, cigarette, etc.).
5. to inflate, distend, or swell, especially with air.
6. to make fluffy; fluff (often followed by up):
7. to inflate with pride, vanity, etc. (often followed by up):
8. to praise unduly or with exaggeration.
9. to apply powder to (the cheeks, neck, etc.) with a powder puff.
10. to apply (powder) with a powder puff.
11. to arrange in puffs, as the hair.

verb (used without object)

1. to blow with short, quick blasts, as the wind.
2. to be emitted in a puff.
3. to emit a puff or puffs; breathe quick and hard, as after violent exertion.
4. to go with puffing or panting.
5. to emit puffs or whiffs of vapor or smoke.
6. to move with such puffs:
7. to take puffs at a cigar, cigarette, etc.
8. to become inflated, distended, or swollen (usually followed by up).
9. (especially of an auctioneer's accomplice) to bid on an item at an auction solely to increase the price that the final bidder must pay.

Origin of Puff

1175-1225; (v.) Middle English puffen (compare Middle Dutch puffen, Low German pof, puf); (noun) Middle English puf, puffe; of imitative orig.

Examples for Puff

And now they all vanish in a puff of smoke from the chimney.

He leaned back, and began to puff leisurely at his pipe, as if this settled the matter.

How good that puff of fresh air and freedom felt on his face!

puff for puff, no one is calling e-cigarettes worse than normal cigarettes.

And so, with a snort and a puff, he worked out by another door.

So we salute you, Mr. Fielder, even as we continue to huff and puff at the gym in pursuit of those rippling ridges.

And even ordinary exercisers may subject themselves to dirty looks if they puff near their gym.

In his new video for “I Want the Love,” puff Daddy sits tight on what appears to be a pretty good replica of the iron throne.

(a) What precautions should be taken in the making of a puff omelet?

“I would disappear in a puff of smoke and then reappear,” a former Dorothy recalled during her return to the Land of Oz.