Crossword clues for puffed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
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To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.
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To breathe quick and hard, or with puffs, as after violent exertion.
The ass comes back again, puffing and blowing, from the chase.
--L' Estrange. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
--Boyle.-
To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
Then came brave Glory puffing by.
--Herbert.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1
1 inflated or swollen 2 consisting of a puff 3 (context of cereals English) expanded by the use of steam v
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(en-past of: puff) Etymology 2
a. (context informal English) Same as '''puffed out'''.
WordNet
adj. abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas; "hungry children with bloated stomachs"; "he had a grossly distended stomach"; "eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids"; "swollen hands"; "tumescent tissue"; "puffy tumid flesh" [syn: bloated, distended, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid]
gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: puff]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "puffed".
Two wings extended out toward the street, creating a garden-like area in the center that was planted with pink and gray caladium, banks of philodendrons and elephant ears, climbing roses, banana trees, bamboo, crepe myrtle and azaleas, whose blooms puffed in the wind and tumbled on the grass.
Nubian puffed forth the smoke of his chibouque proved that he at least was wholly absorbed in the enjoyment of his favorite occupation.
When he finished he let the last page sail, lit a small cigarillo and puffed it, staring at the ceiling, making me wait.
His dewlap went from being a flaccid sack waggling beneath his muzzle to a puffed ruby balloon, almost as big as the dome of his cranium.
Later as Doxy gathered the plates and cups he filled his pipe and puffed quietly as he stared into the flames of the fire.
Killer Durgan, eyes red with anger, puffed lips snarling, was covering Ernie with his automatic.
Another anxious moment, and with a sigh of relief Betty slipped on the short waist with its puffed sleeves and essayed to pin the fichu daintily around her neck.
As Dane passed Firn the two men puffed their chests out like lighting roosters.
Climbing is hard work for a fat man, and the gamekeeper found himself covered with pitch before he had gone more than halfway up, but he puffed on in spite of difficulties and at last reached a point from which he could look directly across the surface of the rock, but from which the cave was entirely hidden behind a projection in the wall of the cliff.
Gates, the gamekeeper, puffed alongside him and Harry was just a few paces behind.
Out puffed a pastel blue kerchief that fluttered gauzily as she lifted it.
To the harassed monk who scurried up to her and asked her business, she had blubbered about her dying father who had gone missingstomped off into the night to diewho she had heard might be here with these angels of mercy, and the monk was mollified and a little puffed at his goodliness and he told Derkhan that she might stay and search.
There seemed so much gusto in the way he puffed and swilled as he washed himself, so much alacrity with which he hurried to the mirror in the kitchen, and, bending because it was too low for him, scrupulously parted his wet black hair, that it irritated Mrs.
Toffefson cabin, Torv puffed on his pipe and sipped from the coffee Inga poured for him.
Master Kinch glanced at Mat out of the corner of his eye, and puffed his pipe in silence for a while.