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Puffed

//pʌft// adj, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Inflated or swollen.
  2. 2
    Synonym of puffed out (“panting from exercise”). colloquial
  3. 3
    Gathered up into rounded ridges.

    "The dress had puffed sleeves."

  4. 4
    Expanded by the use of steam.
  5. 5
    Consisting of a puff; exhaled or produced in puffs.

    "the puffed smoke of a cigar"

Adjective
  1. 1
    gathered for protruding fullness wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of puff form-of, participle, past

Etymology

Etymology 1

From puff + -ed.

Etymology 2

From puff + -ed.

Etymology 3

Shortened from puffed out.

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