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Overview of noun puffing

The noun puffing has 2 senses


  • puffing -- (blowing tobacco smoke out into the air; "they smoked up the room with their ceaseless puffing")

  • puffing, huffing, snorting -- (an act of forcible exhalation)


Overview of verb puff

The verb puff has 8 senses


  • puff, whiff -- (smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe")

  • puff, drag, draw -- (suck in or take (air); "draw a deep breath"; "draw on a cigarette")

  • pant, puff, gasp, heave -- (breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted; "The runners reached the finish line, panting heavily")

  • puff -- (make proud or conceited; "The sudden fame puffed her ego")

  • puff, puff up -- (praise extravagantly; "The critics puffed up this Broadway production")

  • puff -- (speak in a blustering or scornful manner; "A puffing kind of man")

  • puff, puff up, blow up, puff out -- (to swell or cause to enlarge, "Her faced puffed up from the drugs"; "puffed out chests")

  • puff, huff, chuff -- (blow hard and loudly; "he huffed and puffed as he made his way up the mountain")