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]