Definition of Puffy

1. Adjective. Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing. "A bouffant skirt"

Exact synonyms: Bouffant
Similar to: Big, Large

2. Adjective. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas. "Puffy tumid flesh"

3. Adjective. Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts. "Gusty winds "
Exact synonyms: Gusty
Similar to: Stormy
Derivative terms: Gust, Puff

Definition of Puffy

1. a. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor.

Definition of Puffy

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to puffs or puffiness; being pillow-like, exhibiting swelling, inflated ¹

2. Adjective. Speaking or writing in an exaggeratedly eloquent and self-important manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puffy

1. swollen [adj -FIER, -FIEST] : PUFFILY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puffy

puffily
puffin
puffiness
puffinesses
puffinet
puffinets
puffing
puffing up
puffingly
puffings
puffinries
puffinry
puffins
puffs
puffs up
puffy (current term)
puftaloon
puftaloons
pug
pug-dog
pug-nose
pug-nosed
pug nose
pugaree
pugarees
puggaree
puggarees
pugged
pugger
puggeries

Literary usage of Puffy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
"... puffy mattress covered with a red quilt, in a shuttered and airless room. chapter DONT I, in looking for things to do, show that I'm not attentive ..."

2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1845)
"The uterus was very large, its serous surface pale and baring a puffy appearance. The muscular tissue of the organ was pale but not softened, nor was there ..."

3. The Medical Times and Gazette (1874)
"On the following day, December 6, the dulness reached rather higher at the left back, and the crepitation títere TI» finer and more puffy in character ..."

4. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"... condition present in chlorosis ; and this accounts, in part, for the peculiar hue and puffy visage, ..."

5. The American Joe Miller: A Collection of Yankee Wit and Humour by Robert Kempt, Joe Miller (1865)
"The world is like a baked meat pie; the upper crust is rich, dry, and puffy; the lowr crust is heavy, doughy, and underdone; the middle is D^t bad generally ..."

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