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Meaning of 'puffy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Puffy [ a.]
- Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.
- Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.

Meaning of 'puffy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . puffy [ s]
Meaning (1):
- being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
Example in sentence:
  • a bouffant skirt
Meaning (2):
- abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas
Example in sentence:
  • eyes with puffed (or puffy) lids;
  • he had a grossly distended stomach;
  • hungry children with bloated stomachs;
  • puffy tumid flesh;
  • swollen hands;
  • tumescent tissue
Meaning (3):
- blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts
Example in sentence:
  • gusty winds;
  • puffy off-shore winds

Nearby Words:

puff puff-leg puff-legged puffball puffed puffer puffery puffin puffiness puffing

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