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Definition of Puffy
1. Adjective. Being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing. "A bouffant skirt"
2. Adjective. Abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas. "Puffy tumid flesh"
Similar to: Unhealthy
Derivative terms: Intumescence, Intumescency, Puffiness, Tumesce, Tumescence, Tumidity, Tumidness
3. Adjective. Blowing in puffs or short intermittent blasts. "Gusty winds "
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
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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