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puff

(pŭf)

a. A short forceful exhalation of breath.

b. A short sudden gust of wind.

c. A brief sudden emission of air, vapor, or smoke.

d. A short sibilant sound produced by a puff.

2. An amount of vapor, smoke, or similar material released in a puff.

3. An act of drawing in and expelling the breath, as in smoking tobacco.

4. A swelling or rounded protuberance.

5. Puff pastry.

6. A light soft pad for applying powder or lotion.

7. A gathered, protruding portion of fabric.

8. A light padded bed covering.

a. An approving or flattering recommendation.

b. A piece of writing, as on the jacket of a book, containing often exaggerated praise, used for promotional purposes.

10. Genetics A localized region of swelling in certain chromosomes indicating the active synthesis of RNA.

v. puffed, puff·ing, puffs

v.intr.

1. To blow in puffs.

2. To come forth in puffs: steam puffing from an engine.

3. To breathe forcefully and rapidly: huffed and puffed up the stairs.

4. To emit puffs.

5. To take puffs on smoking material: puffing on a cigar.

6. To swell or seem to swell, as with pride or air. Often used with up: He puffed up and glared at the importuning questioner.

v.tr.

1. To emit or give forth in puffs.

2. To impel with puffs.

3. To smoke (a cigar, for example).

4. To inflate or distend: The wind puffed out the sail.

5. To fill with pride or conceit: The compliment puffed up his ego.

6. To publicize with often exaggerated praise: publishers who puff their new books.

[From Middle English puffen, to puff, from Old English pyffan, perhaps of imitative origin.]

puff′i·ly adv.

puff′i·ness n.

puff′y adj.

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puffed

(pʌft)

adj

1. (of a part of the body) swollen because of an injury or illness

2. informal breathing with difficulty after exertion

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Adj.

puffed - gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves"

puff

fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"

puffed

adjective out of breath, winded, exhausted, spent, done in (informal), panting, gasping, wiped out (informal), breathless, short of breath, out of whack (informal), shagged out (Brit. taboo slang) Do you get puffed easily when you go up stairs?

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Translations

مَقْطوع النَّفَس

udýchaný

forpustet

essoufflé

kifulladt

móîur og másandi

senza fiato

soluk soluğa kalmış

喘气的

puffed

[pʌft] ADJ

1. (also puffed up) [eye] → hinchado
his face was all puffed (up) → tenía la cara hinchada
to be puffed up with pride (fig) → hincharse de orgullo

2. I'm puffed (out) (= out of breath) → me quedé sin aliento

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puffed

[ˈpʌft] adj (= out of breath) → à bout de souffle

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puffed

adj (inf) → außer Puste (inf)

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puffed

[ˈpʌft] adj (fam) (out of breath) I'm puffed (out) → sono senza fiato

puff

(paf) noun

1. a small blast of air, wind etc; a gust. A puff of wind moved the branches.

2. any of various kinds of soft, round, light or hollow objects. a powder puff; (also adjective) puff sleeves.

verb

1. to blow in small blasts. Stop puffing cigarette smoke into my face!; He puffed at his pipe.

2. to breathe quickly, after running etc. He was puffing as he climbed the stairs.

puffed adjective

short of breath; breathing quickly. I'm puffed after running so fast!

ˈpuffy adjective

swollen, especially unhealthily. a puffy face/ankle.

puff pastry

a light, flaky type of pastry.

puff out

to cause to swell or expand. The bird puffed out its feathers; He puffed out his cheeks.

puff up

to swell. Her eye (was all) puffed up after the wasp stung her.

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"But I'd be ever so much gratefuller if--if you'd made just one of them with puffed sleeves.

"I did hope there would be a white one with puffed sleeves," she whispered disconsolately.

She did not think she liked Miss Rogerson, and she felt very miserable; every other little girl in the class had puffed sleeves.

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She drew in a long whiff and puffed it forth again into the bar of morning sunshine which struggled through the one dusty pane of her cottage window.

"Well puffed, my pretty lad!" still cried old Mother Rigby.

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The man puffed his pipe calmly and put his great mudded boots on the back part of the stove.

He puffed imperturbably at his pipe for a time, but finally arose and began to look out at the window into the darkening chaos of back yards.

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Johnny Dooit puffed his pipe and looked carefully at the dreadful desert in front of them--stretching so far away they could not see its end.

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Using a sharp knife, lightly score all the way round, about 2.5cm inside the edge of the puff pastry, and bake in the oven for 10-12 mins, or until the pastry has puffed up and started to turn golden.