Puff, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Puffed p. pr. & vb. n. Puffing.]
  1. To blow in puffs, or with short and sudden whiffs.
  2. To blow, as an expression of scorn; -- with at.
     It is really to defy Heaven to puff at damnation.   --South.
  3. 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.
  4. To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
  5. To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
     Then came brave Glory puffing by.   --Herbert.
  puffed
       adj 1: 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]
       2: gathered for protruding fullness; "puff sleeves" [syn: puff]