Puft

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A puff. archaic
Verb
  1. 1
    To puff. ambitransitive, obsolete

Etymology

From Middle English poften (“to puff, pant”), from Old English *puffettan, from Proto-West Germanic *puffattjan (“to puff repeatedly, pant”), equivalent to puff + -t.

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