1. to blow in short gusts
2. to exhale forcibly
3. to breathe hard pant
4. to emit small whiffs or clouds (as of smoke) often as an accompaniment to vigorous action
puff at a pipe
5. to speak or act in a scornful, conceited, or exaggerated manner
6. to become distended swell —usually used with up
7. to open or appear in or as if in a puff
8. to form a chromosomal puff
9. to emit, propel, blow, or expel by or as if by puffs waft
10. to draw on (a cigar, cigarette, pipe, etc.) with intermittent exhalations of smoke
11. to distend with or as if with air or gas inflate
12. to make proud or conceited elate
13. to praise extravagantly and usually with exaggeration
authors puffing their own work
14. advertise
15. an act or instance of puffing whiff
16. a slight explosive sound accompanying a puff
17. a perceptible cloud or aura emitted in a puff
18. draw sense 1a
19. a light round hollow pastry
20. a slight swelling protuberance
21. a fluffy mass: such as
22. pouf sense 2
23. a small fluffy pad for applying cosmetic powder
24. a soft loose roll of hair
25. a quilted bed covering
26. a commendatory or promotional notice or review
27. an enlarged region of a chromosome that is associated with intensely active genes involved in RNA synthesis
28. of, relating to, or designed for promotion or flattery
a puff piece in the paper
29. to breathe smoke from a cigarette, pipe, etc., in and out of the lungs
30. to produce or send out small clouds of smoke or steam
31. to move in a particular direction while producing clouds of steam or smoke
32. an act of breathing something (such as smoke or medicine) into your lungs
33. a movement of gas, smoke, or air that can be seen or felt
34. a light, round pastry that contains a sweet filling
35. to breathe hard pant
36. to send out small whiffs or clouds (as of smoke)
37. to swell up or become swollen with or as if with air
The injured eye puffed up. I puffed out my cheeks.
38. a quick short instance of sending or letting out air, smoke, or steam
We could see puffs from a locomotive.
39. a slight swelling
40. a soft pad for putting powder on the skin
41. a light pastry
42. to become distended swell —usually used with up
43. windgall
44. an act or instance of puffing
45. a statement that amounts to puffing
whether the seller's statement was a “puff” or an express warranty
— J. J. White and R. S. Summers