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Definition of Puff out
1. Verb. To swell or cause to enlarge,. "Did his feet puff out?"; "Puffed out chests"
Generic synonyms: Intumesce, Swell, Swell Up, Tumefy, Tumesce
Derivative terms: Puffer
Definition of Puff out
1. Verb. To inflate ¹
2. Verb. To blow briefly and lightly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Puff Out
Literary usage of Puff out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"... or the clocks of the same. neither line them with any other stuff to make them
swell or puff out, more than one lining."— Ibid. No. 40. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Draw into the mouth and puff out smoke from (ал tobacco in a pipe or a cigar].
2. Reek, steam, exhale, emit vapor. 3. Burn, be kindled, rage, fume, ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"OF bufe, a blow, esp. on the cheek; bufer, buffer, to strike; also, to puff out
the cheeks. B. Some have derived the UF bufe, a blow, from the Germ, puff, ..."
4. Emblems divine and moral, together with Hieroglyphics of the life of man by Francis Quarles (1808)
"My soul, if ignorance puff out this light, She'll do a favor that intends a
spite : 'T seems dark abroad ; but, take this light ..."
5. Notes of Thought by Charles Buxton, John Llewelyn Davies (1883)
"To set others off against him, they puff out and twist about what he said, and
put still worse things into his mouth. In time, they themselves grow sure ..."
6. Racing Calendar by Robert J. Hunter (1834)
"B. Davies's bc Momus, by Cardinal Puff, out of Mima, by Grimaldi Tiresias bf
Mantua, by Cardinal Puff, out of Manto, by b f. by Cardinal Puff, dam, ..."
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