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Puffy

//ˈpʌfi// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Swollen or inflated in shape, as if filled with air; pillow-like.
  2. 2
    Coming or exhaling in puffs.

    "puffy breath"

  3. 3
    Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner.

    "There has been much puffy stuff written about whether Lyell's uniformitarianism permitted variations in intensity of causes, or whether he applied his logic in a consistent way, and whether he assumed indefinite stretches of geological time."

  4. 4
    Having inflated cheeks.
Adjective
  1. 1
    blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts wordnet
  2. 2
    abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas wordnet
  3. 3
    being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing wordnet

Etymology

From puff + -y.

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